Understories Quotes

“My epiphany: Printed words were the shadows of referents. Things: rock, sand, onion. Ideas: carpool, justice, maximization, irrevocability. Paragraphs were composite shadows of the scenarios and subjects they captured: the overwhelming richness and messiness of the world distilled to bare, chiaroscuroed necessity.”
― Tim Horvath, Understories

“It is not what the shadow tells us about the figure but about the ground that ultimately matters.”
― Tim Horvath, Understories

“Each life is limited--there is only so much reading one can consume in the course of a lifetime, and the guests are waiting for the ham.”
― Tim Horvath, Understories

“The top of a tree is called a crown. This cannot be coincidence. It signifies, rather, that no matter how rigorous the science, no matter how precisely calibrated one’s instruments, trees are, in the end, regal beings to whom we are obligated to bow.”
― Tim Horvath, Understories