Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
You can't run from your roots.
This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.
Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.
Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.