Reetta

“Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“But hope and truth do nothing for humans without use. In the clumpy, clumsy fingerpaint of words, she searches for the use of Old Tjikko, up on that barren crest, endlessly dying and resurrecting in every change of climate. His use is to show that the world is not made for our utility. What use are we to trees?”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“You can’t see what you don’t understand. But what you think you already understand, you’ll fail to notice.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment