this is my house

"I long to be that complete"

I'm in tears, I miss Nighteyes so much 😭😭

He gave me a loose-lipped smile. “I can’t go through another one of your deaths. I can’t.”

It was neither pain nor pleasure; it was connection, pure and simple, as if we shared a skin. I lay still under that scrutiny, lacking even the strength to tremble, as I prayed he would go no further. I need not have feared.

chivalry’s shadow.

Moss and bluebells

— Richard Powers, The Overstory

by briscoepark

Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'Alba')

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

― Richard Powers, The Overstory

the overstory by richard powers / the relationship between us and trees by vivien martineau / cosmos by carl sagan

— Richard Powers, The Overstory