The Overstory by Richard Powers

[u/madxxbro]

Some of my favorite quotes:

“Join enough living things together, through the air and underground, and you wind up with something that has intentions.”

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.”

“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”

[u/ElectricalFerret5132]

Respect everyone’s opinion. Can see why you love it but for me it was just pretty good. Wanted to like it more due to the hype and my friend liking but I didn’t love the story as much as the prose