Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:
“The real drawback to “the simple life” is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)