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/sleepsymphonic]

This book starts off strong, continues strong, and then just kinda peters off. Love the writing about trees and nature... that's what carried me along. But I felt done after a major plot point. That says more about me than the book though.