Luke Jones

“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.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“ The man rolls over onto his back, face-to-face with the morning sky. The messages swarm him. Even here, homeless, he thinks: Nothing will be the same.
The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same.
We're all doomed, the man thinks.
We have always all been doomed.
But things are different this time.
Yes. You're here.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“If you’re reading this and work in private insurance or the American government, fuck off and fuck you, forever. In the words of David Lynch, “Fix your hearts or die.”
― Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

“Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn’t make it any less kind.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory