Sheridan

“A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“In the dark, she asks, "What are you thinking?"
He's thinking that his life has reached its zenith, this very day. That he has lived to see everything he wants. Lived to see himself happy.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“He tells her, on their drives, about all the oblique miracles that green can devise.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“She loves her own species, too—sneaky and self-serving, trapped in blinkered bodies, blind to intelligence all around it—yet chosen by creation to know.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory