Roots and the Meaning of Life

They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of all that is alive. Beneath our feet, roots spread fractal and pulmonary, veining the biosphere with the bloodstream of lif