The Overstory: A Novel

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.

You cannot shut down human hunger. You cannot even slow it. Just holding steady costs more than the race can afford.

a path she walks almost nightly, out and back like that old palindrome: La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural.

But it’s Idaho, and when you spend all your hours with horses, your soul expands a bit until the ways of men reveal themselves to be no more than a costume party you’d be well advised not to take at face value.

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation.

“Patience is the maker of all good things.”

It says: A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.

Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

Words strike him as a ruse. His maize and beans and squash—all growing things alone disclose the wordless mind of God.