The Overstory Quotes

Richard Powers
This Study Guide consists of approximately 87 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Overstory.

The Overstory Quotes

Richard Powers
This Study Guide consists of approximately 87 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Overstory.
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Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger.
-- Nick (Nicholas Hoel)

Importance: This quote tells readers that humans have been increasingly hungry for resources around them and that they cannot see the destruction it causes. It also tells them that humans do not truly know what they want and just devour everything in their path.

The True Thing mean: human beings, so small. And life, so very big.
-- Winston Ma (Mimi Ma)

Importance: This quote shows that humans are not as large as they think they are and that there are other vast beings around them. However, many do not see this but it is the truest thing in the world.

Paying attention decimates your speed
-- Dorothy Cazlay (Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazlay)

Importance: This quote subtly tells readers that the reason humans cannot see the destruction they are wreaking is that if they payed attention to the world around them, the speed of their progress would slow immensely. In order to keep progressing, they must...

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