Jess

“There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' "
The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one."
" 'When is the next best time? Now.' "
"Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“And the goal of the game will be to figure out what the new and desperate world wants from you.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Nothing is a cliche when you’re living it.”
― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

“What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory