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“Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.” p348

“It occurs to Adam where the word ‘radical’ came from. ‘Radix.’ ‘Wrad.’ ‘Root.’” p329

“This is what people do—solve their own problems in other peoples’ lives.” p247

“In their reading tastes, each of them stays true to the dreams of youth.” p208

“No strangeness stranger than the strangeness of living things.” p178

“...myths are basic truths twisted into mnemonics, instructions posted from the past, memories waiting to become traditions.” p162

“...plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.” p114

The image of time “not a line unrolling in front of her” but instead “a column of concentric circles with herself at the core and the present floating outward” with “future selves stacked up above and behind her” is just sublime. p35