The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Golden Guide to Pond Life,

“We like to have a little ceremony when new people join.”

“Something marvelous is happening underground, something we’re just starting to learn how to see.”

the most vulnerable trees will need to move much faster, to keep from burning up. They can’t cross highways or farms or housing developments. Maybe we can help them.

We are not, one of Adam’s papers proves, wired to see slow, background change, when something bright and colorful is waving in our faces.

She mentions a word that she really ought to spell for the listeners at home. A name for cones that open only in heat. For trees that will spread and grow only through fire.

Wealth needs fences.

Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering.

With luck, some of those seeds will remain viable, inside controlled vaults in the side of a Colorado mountain, until the day when watchful people can return them to the ground. She purses her lips, and pens an addendum. If not, other experiments will go on running themselves, long after people are gone.