EIH

“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

“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

“When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters, When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits, when he balanced the foundations of the earth, I was with him forming all things, and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world. . . . and my delights were to be with the children of men.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“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