EIH

“As Arthur C. Clarke has observed: ‘How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.’ ” Evie frowned. “Clearly It Is Ocean? That’s my title?” “Clearly.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. Neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. . . . When he prepared the heavens, I was present. When with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths,”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“Like an algorithm, a family is endlessly complex yet adaptable and resilient, parents and children working together as parts of an intricate, coordinated whole. Sure, there might be some bugs in the system, a glitch or two. But if you simply tweaked the constants from time to time, life would continue to unfold in its intricate yet predictable patterns, an endless cycle of inputs and outputs subject to your knowledge and control.”
― Bruce Holsinger, Culpability

“THERE WILL BE ONE MORE REFERENDUM. After the new hospital and new school, after the pinnacles are filed down and filled with fertile soil, after the houses both innovative and traditional, after a few solar cars and wind-powered boats, after the enriched communal gardens and restored forests, with ninety-nine percent of the bequest still left over, the island will vote to become again what they have always been—a people of the ocean. For every island is a canoe, and all the Earth is an island, living by the grace of the immense and slowly turning blue creature. This time the vote will be unanimous, and it will be heard around the world.”
― Richard Powers, Playground