Roots

Nostalgia — the nostalgia for our roots — is a healthy feeling, since people with no roots are lost, and a person with no roots is sick. Roots give us strength to move forward, to bear fruit, to blossom, as the Argentine poet Francisco Luis Bernárdez said: ‘Por lo que el árbol tíene de florido / víve de lo que tíene de lo que tíene sepultado.’ All that has blossomed on the tree / lives on that which holds it underground.

Hope : the autobiography / Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, 2025.