#The Overstory

Trees stand at the heart of ecology, and they must come to stand at the heart of human politics.

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The older the word, the more likely it is to be both useful and true. In fact, he read once, back in Iowa, the night the

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Everything in the forest is the forest. Competition is not separable from endless flavors of cooperation.

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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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You can’t see what you don’t understand. But what you think you already understand, you’ll fail to notice.

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You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways.

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Phenomenal, to be such a small, weak, short-lived being on a planet with billions of years left to run.

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You miss the half of it, and more. There’s always as much belowground as above. That’s the trouble with people, their

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He can’t remember why fiction used to make him so impatient. Nothing else has more power now to get him through the hours

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A truth bends near him, one that his discipline will never find. Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against

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There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of

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