Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like....

“ Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way. ”

Diane Ackerman

From : A Natural History of the Senses