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Roots
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Roots over rock (Bonsai at the National Arboretum, D.C.)
Roots in air (Bonsai at the National Arboretum, D.C.)
- Roots thin out as they go down
- roots suck at what they hold on to and hollow it out
- roots begin solid and thick, but hold through fragile thinness
- roots can be pulled up, but with difficulty
- roots can be destroyed by blocked circulation
- roots can find their soil pulled away by the very flows they seek
- roots work around rocks
- roots crack what they hold on to
- roots clog other circulations, and refuse to stay in neat compartments
- roots intercept flows and resources
- roots are always exposed
- roots move along gradients
- roots compete
- roots travel
- roots transport
- roots need air
And we haven't even mentioned rhizomes .
Roots and foundations are not so different. Both are mobile.
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials. Sterling 1998, 406