“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Buddha’s words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar. Reflecting sunlight, they swirled and sailed and fluttered on the wind drafts.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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