Annabelle

“I’ve been a man who happily confuses the agreed-on for the actual. A man who has never doubted that life has a meaningful future”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“You’re studying what makes some people take the living world seriously when the only real thing for everyone else is other people.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Trees trade airborne aerosol signals, the article says. They make medicines.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Humans carry around legacy behaviors and biases, jerry-rigged holdovers from earlier stages of evolution that follow their own obsolete rules. What seem like erratic, irrational choices are, in fact, strategies created long ago for solving other kinds of problems. We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory