The Overstory Quotes by Richard Powers
Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel


“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers
Collaborative Fund • Makes You Think
First there was nothing. Then there was everything.
Then, in a park above a western city after dark, the air is raining messages.
A woman sits on the ground, leaning against a pine. Its bark presses hard against her back, hard as life. Its needles scent the air and a force hums in the heart of the wood. Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies.
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