James Bridle mentions The Overstory in his book Ways of Being. Here’s the part that stood out for me:
As I read it, I felt something shift in myself, a sense of having been blind all my life to events and processes, whole other lives that surround us all the time. Having always been more interested in words on pages and code on screens, I suddenly found myself leaning out of windows to touch the leaves of nearby trees, and stopping in the street to trace, with wonder, the whorls and cracks of living bark.
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Posting a memory forward to a distant future
I am reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, and in the book Patricia tells her botany students (emphasis mine): “Billions of years ago, a single, fluke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of …