#the overstory

[quotespile]

We don't make reality. We evade it. So far. By looting natural capital and hiding the costs. But the bill is coming, and we won't be able to pay.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #books #lit

[gnnosis]

what we owe to each other

[ the good place, 2x13 / the overstory, richard powers / unknown / “don’t carry it all,” the decemberists / thoodleoo ]

#web weaving #the good place #chidi anagonye #what we owe to each other #richard powers #the overstory #the decemberists #don’t carry it all #on interconnectedness #on interdependence #on community #on humanity #on peoplehood #my post

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

#book quotes #richard powers #the overstory #trees and forests #books and libraries #books and reading #literature

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #lit #books #words

[whilereadingandwalking]

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”—Richard Powers, The Overstory

#the overstory #richard powers #bookish love #redwoods #reading and walking #bookworm

[el-im]

#library #the overstory

[readerbookclub]

Hello everyone! A new month is coming, which means we're going to start a new book. This time, I've collected a list of books that are all about nature. As always, please remember to vote for your favourite using the link at the end of the post. And now onto the books!

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Greenwood, by Michael Christie

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests.

It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion.

It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire.

It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades.

And throughout, there are trees: thrumming a steady, silent pulse beneath Christie's effortless sentences and working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival.

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, by Ruth Emmie Lang

Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was.

That tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn’t like to take credit. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night, Weylyn’s unique abilities are a curiosity at best and at worst, a danger to himself and the woman he loves. But Mary doesn’t care. Since Weylyn saved her from an angry wolf on her eleventh birthday, she’s known that a relationship with him isn’t without its risks, but as anyone who’s met Weylyn will tell you, once he wanders into your life, you’ll wish he’d never leave.

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance tells the story of Weylyn Grey’s life from the perspectives of the people who knew him, loved him, and even a few who thought he was just plain weird. Although he doesn’t stay in any of their lives for long, he leaves each of them with a story to tell. Stories about a boy who lives with wolves, great storms that evaporate into thin air, fireflies that make phosphorescent honey, and a house filled with spider webs and the strange man who inhabits it.

There is one story, however, that Weylyn wishes he could change: his own. But first he has to muster enough courage to knock on Mary’s front door.

The Lost City of Z, by David Grann

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century": What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett & his quest for the Lost City of Z?

In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humans. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions inspired Conan Doyle's The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his 21-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilisation--which he dubbed Z--existed. Then his expedition vanished. Fawcett's fate, & the tantalizing clues he left behind about Z, became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness.

For decades scientists & adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett's party & the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes or gone mad. As Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett's quest, & the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle's green hell. His quest for the truth & discoveries about Fawcett's fate & Z form the heart of this complexly enthralling narrative.

Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingslover

It is summer in the Appalachian mountains and love, desire and attraction are in the air. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and interrupts her solitary life.

On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections of love to one another and to the surrounding nature with which they share a place.

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#books #booklr #book list #book club #nature #the overstory #greenwood #beasts of extraordinary circumstance #the lost city of z #prodigal summer

[godzilla-reads]

📚My Big Book TBR📚

🐺Wolfsong by TJ Klune

🍊The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

🍓Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

🌳The Overstory by Richard Powers

#godzilla reads #wolfsong #tj klune #wolfsong by tj klune #the priory of the orange tree #samantha shannon #anna karenina #leo tolstoy #the overstory #richard powers #big books #reading #booklr #book blog #booklover #bibliophile

[nat-seal-well]

“That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.

“A chorus of living wood sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we’d drown you in meaning.

“The pine she leans against says: Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”

—The Overstory, by Richard Powers

#book qoute #the overstory #richard powers #guess what my current read is

[dk-thrive]

That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next.

Richard Powers, The Overstory: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company; April 2, 2019) (via Wait-What?)

#Richard Powers #The overstory #awareness #gratitude #now #life

[quotespile]

She knows she'll never see him again in this or any life to come. Yet she sees him wherever she looks. That's life; the dead keep the living alive.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #books #lit

[literanarchy]

The older the word, the more likely it is to be both useful and true.

The Overstory by Richard Powers

#the overstory #richard powers #quotes #literary quotes #words #truth #etymology

[rekatur]

10.23.

#highgate wood #book journal #the overstory #london

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #lit #books #words

[whilereadingandwalking]

If you read The Overstory by Richard Powers, I recommend Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, a memoir by the actual woman who discovered that trees communicate.

#the overstory #finding the mother tree #suzanne simard #richard powers #science books

[el-im]

#see the pyramids along the Nile #watch the sunrise on a tropic isle #just remember darlin all the while #you…. #library #the overstory #shoemaker