power

Ursula le Guin Afterword in Tehanu pg 274

“Maybe the change coming into Earthsea has something to do with no longer identifying freedom with power, with separating free from being in control. There is a kind of refusal to serve power that isn’t a revolt or rebellion, but a revolution in the sense of reversing meanings, of changing how things are

Tehanu by Ursula le Guin pg 119

“‘Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs,’ Moss said. ‘But it goes down deep. It’s all roots. It’s like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard’s power’s like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it’ll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble.’”