Greenwood
Out in the yard, all around the house, the things they’ve planted in years gone by are making significance, making meaning, as easily as they make sugar and wood from nothing, from air, and sun, and rain. But the humans hear nothing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Have you ever seen a redwood tree? They're majestic and towering - scraping the sky while standing shoulder to shoulder with fellow redwoods in what feels like impossibly close quarters.
They can become so tall that their circulatory system can't pump water to the whole tree, so their upper needles have adapted to drink fog right out of the sky.
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They can become so tall that their circulatory system can't pump water to the whole tree, so their upper needles have adapted to drink fog right out of the sky.
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Michele Hornish • Why I'm Thinking About Trees This Morning
rule: What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
