Likely Stories : The Overstory, by Richard Powers
3:31 amazing and absorbing story begins with a series of substories about trees and how they affect the environment. The first episode is titled, “Nicholas Hoel.” Powers writes, “Now is the time of chestnuts. // People are hurling stones at the giant trunks. The nuts fall all around them in a divine hail. It happens in countless places this Sunday, from Georgia to Main. Up in Concord, Thoreau takes part. He feels he is casting rocks at a sentient being, with a duller sense than his own, yet still a blood relation. Old trees are our parents, and our parents, and our parent...
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