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Richard Powers Quote: “Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against the thoughts of the green world.”

301. “Consciousness itself is a flavor of madness, set against the thoughts of the green world.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “Olivia leans in. “Are you okay?” His reply sticks in his wide, coprophagic grin.”

302. “Olivia leans in. “Are you okay?” His reply sticks in his wide, coprophagic grin.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.”

303. “The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “How would we ever know aliens? We can’t even know birds.”

304. “How would we ever know aliens? We can’t even know birds.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “He covers his closed eyes with one hand and says, “I’m sorry.” No forgiveness comes, or ever will. But here’s the thing about trees, the greatest thing: even when he can’t see them, even when he can’t get near, even when he can’t remember how they go, he can climb, and they will hold him high above the ground and let him look out over the arc of the Earth.”

305. “He covers his closed eyes with one hand and says, “I’m sorry.” No forgiveness comes, or ever will. But here’s the thing about trees, the greatest thing: even when he can’t see them, even when he can’t get near, even when he can’t remember how they go, he can climb, and they will hold him high above the ground and let him look out over the arc of the Earth.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they’d given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It’s not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world’s. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

306. “On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they’d given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It’s not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world’s. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The whole race suffered from Capgras. those birds danced like our next of kin, called and parented and taught and navigated all just like our blood relations. Half their parts were still ours. Yet humans waved them off: Imposters. at most, a strange spectacle to gaze at from a blind.”

307. “The whole race suffered from Capgras. those birds danced like our next of kin, called and parented and taught and navigated all just like our blood relations. Half their parts were still ours. Yet humans waved them off: Imposters. at most, a strange spectacle to gaze at from a blind.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.”

308. “But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!”

309. “We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next.”

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

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Richard Powers Quote: “The day would come when the last clean cause and effect would disappear into thickets of tangled networks.”

311. “The day would come when the last clean cause and effect would disappear into thickets of tangled networks.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “I’d missed something obvious in over thirty years of reading and two thousand science fiction books: there was no place stranger than here.”

312. “I’d missed something obvious in over thirty years of reading and two thousand science fiction books: there was no place stranger than here.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “Yes! And what do all good stories do?” There are no takers. Neelay holds up his arms and extends his palms in the oddest gesture. In another moment, leaves will grow from his fingers. Birds will come and nest in them. “They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t.”

313. “Yes! And what do all good stories do?” There are no takers. Neelay holds up his arms and extends his palms in the oddest gesture. In another moment, leaves will grow from his fingers. Birds will come and nest in them. “They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t.”

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Richard Powers Quote: “They are, in fact, like nothing but themselves. They are the crowns of five white spruces laden with cones, bending in the wind as they do every day of their existence. Likeness is the sole problem of men.”

314. “They are, in fact, like nothing but themselves. They are the crowns of five white spruces laden with cones, bending in the wind as they do every day of their existence. Likeness is the sole problem of men.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Creatures, all of whome heard humans and knew them as just a part of the wider network of sounds. Living things of every gauge, for whom the roadside bar was just another mound in the continuous test of the landscape, just another swarming node in the biome to exploit.”

315. “Creatures, all of whome heard humans and knew them as just a part of the wider network of sounds. Living things of every gauge, for whom the roadside bar was just another mound in the continuous test of the landscape, just another swarming node in the biome to exploit.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Thank you,” she says, following the ancient formula. “For all these gifts that you have given.” And still not knowing how to stop, she adds, “We’re sorry. We didn’t know how hard it is for you to grow back.”

316. “Thank you,” she says, following the ancient formula. “For all these gifts that you have given.” And still not knowing how to stop, she adds, “We’re sorry. We didn’t know how hard it is for you to grow back.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “The laws that govern the light from a firefly in my backyard as I write these words tonight also govern the light emitted from an exploding star one billion light-years away. Place changes nothing. Nor does time. One set of fixed rules runs the game, in all times and places. That’s as big a truth as we Earthling have discovered, or ever will, in our brief run.”

317. “The laws that govern the light from a firefly in my backyard as I write these words tonight also govern the light emitted from an exploding star one billion light-years away. Place changes nothing. Nor does time. One set of fixed rules runs the game, in all times and places. That’s as big a truth as we Earthling have discovered, or ever will, in our brief run.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “All the good things in her came into us. Now we keep her alive, with whatever we can remember.”

318. “All the good things in her came into us. Now we keep her alive, with whatever we can remember.”

— Richard Powers

Richard Powers Quote: “Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected.”

319. “Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it’s one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don’t even know that we are infected.”

— Richard Powers

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