Ashley

“You look at woods full of aspen, and you think they’re like any other tree. You cut enough down and you clear the woods. But the aspen, they’re all connected to a root system. You can’t kill the thing by cutting one down, you have to pull the colony out by the roots,” Lewis said, and met her eyes. “The Company’s roots are so deep in Montana’s soil it would ruin the state to yank them out.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian