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Adaptive management.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ap Dijksterhuis and Loran Nordgren,
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
the English first swarmed a continent that rose from the ocean overnight, seeking masts for their leviathan frigates and ships of the line, masts that no place in all stripped Europe, not even the farthest boreal north, could any longer provide.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Enlightenment is a shared enterprise.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
can humanity realize its aspirations within the safe boundaries of our biosphere?—has
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
truculent
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
These connections and movements are extensions of the solar-powered network, mediated by the actions of Homo sapiens.
David George Haskell • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Thanks to these redundancies, the wood wide web is remarkably resilient; only a clear-cut can destroy it.