"Adam salvages a a bit of wood ... A tree is a passage between earth and sky... He gives it to Leigh anyway, as a going-away present..." p. 53 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"But this will never end - What we have. Right? p. 493, and at least once previously
"Commands: Look, listen, taste, touch, feel, say, join." p. 493 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"Do not hope or despair or predict or be caught surprised. Never capitulate, but divide, multiply, transform, conjoin, do, and endure as you have all the long day of life." p. 500 p. 53 The Overstory
Art by Joanne Fink
"For there is hope of a tree, if it goes down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branches will not cease... " p. 485
Greatest thing: even when he can't get near, even when he can't remember how they go, he can climb, and they will hold him high above the ground and let him look out over the arc of the Earth ... the birds, though, Give themselves as Gifts." p. 491
"His heart is as good and as worthy as wood." p. 491 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"If one of us falls off the edge, the other is going with... but this will never end - what we have. Right?" p. 381 and previously. I love how The Overstory wraps and weaves, repeats and overlays
"Joy Comes with the Morning
A Psalm of David. Psalm 30:5 qtd. in The Overstory
"Life has a way of talking to the future. It's called memory...genes. To solve the future, we [?] must save the past." p. 453 "Love is a tree with branches in forever, with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all." ~ Rumi qtd. on p. 381 "Let the field be joyful, all that is there in: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice." Psalm 96:12 qtd. in The Overstory
Martha recommended, and there were other "signs" from library dropbox to Maryam's purchase...
"Not this. Come with. Fear Nothing." p. 128 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"On this mountain, in such weather / Why stay here any longer? Three trees wave to me with urgent arms." p. 367 and p. 484 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"Plant-blind. Adam's Curse. We only see things that look like us." p. 114 The Overstory
Quotes the Bible a number of times, plus Rumi
"Red thread once tied them together, the shared work of trying to care and see more...
"She tugs on the thread. It's still taut... She wants to rush him a message of absolute forgiveness." p. 490
"Though the root grows old in earth / and the stock dies in the ground, at the scent / of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs. / But man, man wastes away and dies / and gives up the ghost, and where is he? p. 485
"Ultra fine line between numbness and awe." p. 124 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"View crack open his chest." p. 264 Vision: the topic, the gift, the glory, the joy, the theme of 2020
"What it has been saying to him for decades now, ever since the speaker died. [p.381] He has never known what to do with them, Words of everything and nothing. Words that he has never fully grasped. Wounds that won’t heal. What we have will never end. Right? What we have will never end." p. 483 The Overstory by Richard Powers
"Xenia [Greek] - guest friendship - a command to take care of traveling strangers, to pen your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God..." p. 498
Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with its roots in the underworld and crown in the world above." p. 260
"You have been spared from death to do a most important thing." Olivia and then Adam heard this (p. 495) "You Have Five Trees in Paradise" also twice mentioned in The Overstory more here
Zoopraxiscope (p. 11 of The Overstory) was a primitive version of a motion picture device which worked by showing a sequence of still photographs in rapid succession.
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