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“photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“You miss the half of it, and more. There’s always as much belowground as above. That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“She could tell them about a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it’s the stuff of poems. If forests were patentable, she’d get an ovation.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory