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They were, in fact, sheltered, but they had ceased to remember it.
“Anyone who gets righteous...doesn't understand."
"Understand what?"
"How hopelessly fragile and wrong we all are. About everything.”
― The Overstory
"Understand what?"
"How hopelessly fragile and wrong we all are. About everything.”
― The Overstory
“A truth bends near him, one that his discipline will never find. Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against the thoughts of the green world.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“The Greeks had a word, xenia—guest friendship—a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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