"Any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be."
"The fascicular system does not really break with dualism, with the complementarity between a subject and and object, a natural reality and a spiritual reality: unity is consistently thwarted and obstructed in the object, while a new type of unity truimphs in the subject."
"The tree is already the image of the world, or the root the image of the world tree. This is the classical book, as noble, signifiying, and subjective organic interiority (the strata of the book). The book imitates the world, as art imitates nature: by procedures specific to it that accomplish what nature cannot or can no longer do."
"A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubors are rhizomes. Plants with roots or radicles may be rhizomorphic in other respects altogether."
"The radicle-system, or fascicular root, is the second feature of the book, to which our modernity pays willing allegiance. This time, the principal root has aborted, or its tip has been destroyed; an immediate, indefinite multiplicity of secondary roots grafts onto it and undergoes a flourishing development. This time, natural reality is what aborts the principal root, but the root's unity subsists, as past or yet to come, as possible."
--Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Felix, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia , (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1987).