Matthew Chisholm’s Reviews > The Overstory > Status Update

“Love, as all the good novels know, is a question of title, deed, and possession.”

I wouldn't need to be so very different for sun to seem to be about sun, for green to be about green, for joy and boredom and anguish and terror and death to all be themselves, beyond the need for any killing clarity, and then this --this, the growing rings of light and water and stone--would take up all of me, and be all the words I need.

"A tree is a passage between earth and sky."

"At school in Chicago, he learned many things:

1. Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."