The Overstory: A Novel
Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone. The oldest girl, named for a Puccini opera heroine, will soon be wanted by the feds for fifty million dollars of arson. Two thousand miles to
... See moreRichard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
The anticipated trajectory of a tree’s life can change at any time for any number of reasons. Its health depends on the stability of the forest ecosystem.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
In the end, all that remains is an empty shell that cannot be saved and one day will be chopped down.