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On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Vintage International)
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This, the most widely distributed tree in North America with close kin on three continents, all at once feels unbearably rare. She
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The Golden Guide to Pond Life, The Golden Guide to Stars, to Rocks and Minerals, to Reptiles and Amphibians: humans are almost beside the point.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that’s in people’s hearts, or what they’re liable to do about it, given the chance.