10 WONDERFUL IMAGES & IDEAS ABOUT THE ROOTS OF BEAUTY NOW

Ideas are the roots of creation.

--- Ernest Dimnet

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

--- Dalai Lama

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

--- Frank A. Clark

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

--- Amelia Earhart

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

--- Theodore Roethke

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

--- John F. Kennedy

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

--- George Herbert

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

--- Bertrand Russell

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

--- Isabel Allende

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

--- Henning Mankell

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Jenica. Roots.
2. Image: by *w*. Lineage.
3. Image: by  Lance Cheung. Courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture.
4. Image: by Varin. Sapling.
5. Image: by Elizabeth Weller. This Flower…
6. Image: by Mandy Greer. Mater Matrix Mother and Medium -- The Performance.
7. Image: by Nikos Koutoulas. Lightning Storm Over the Tree. Near Kalohori, Greece.
8. Image: by Ryan Hallock. Our Milky Way.
9. Image: by Ben Roffer. Untitled.
10. Image: by Santi. Searching for the sky / Buscando el cielo.
11. Image: by Elvis Kennedy. Roots.
12. Image: by Overduebook. I Wonder If a Squirrel Missing His Acorn?
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Patrick Dirden. Hanging On To The Past.