The Overstory
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Read between December 26, 2018 - January 14, 2019
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She needs some impossible trifecta: hopeful, useful, and true.
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“What’s crazier—plants speaking, or humans listening?”
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“ ‘. . . I’ll commit myself to respect and defend . . .’ ” “ ‘. . . the common cause of living things.’ ”
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“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
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Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all
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In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.
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The gardener sees only the gardener’s garden. The eyes were not made for such grovelling uses as they are now put to and worn out by, but to behold beauty now invisible. MAY WE NOT SEE GOD?