We should eat like our stone age ancestors, who dug roots, got lots of exercise, and always stayed a little hungry.

Day after day, men, women, and children went to the adjoining woods to dig roots and pick up herbs to keep body and soul together...

"The women still dig roots," Mr. Clowers said.

When we dig roots, we make little holes.

They hunted game, fished salmon, picked berries and dug roots.

A need that deep, that strong, that willful could dig deep and lasting roots.

"You can come back and dig enough roots to boil for a cast if we turn out to need them."

He remembered teaching Kahlan to make a snare, to read tracks, to dig roots, and felt himself turning crimson.

We dug xwa roots and koa, the water root buried deep in the earth, until our arms ached.

They dug yams and edible roots and collected fruits, berries, seeds, vegetables and insects.