The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Golden Guide to Stars, to Rocks and Minerals,

The Golden Guide to Pond Life,

legs almost too small to see, circling his

The Ape Inside Us

when the songs are finished, he adds, Amen, if only because it may be the single oldest word he knows. The older the word, the more likely it is to be both useful and true.

life is going someplace. It wants to know itself; it wants the power of choice. It wants solutions to problems that nothing alive yet knows how to solve, and it’s willing to use even death to find them.

it’s not the world that needs saving. Only the thing that people call by the same name.

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough.

If you could save yourself, your wife, your child, or even a stranger by burning something down, the law allows you. If someone breaks into your home and starts destroying it, you may stop them however you need to.