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“The treatment of the arhats is very skilled. Simply on its historical rarity and the quality of the drawing, we put the value between . . .” He mentions two figures that elicit a high-pitched primate giggle before she can throttle it. “Four Arts would be willing to pay you something in the middle …

He goes out back to check the culvert. It’s overflowing into an improvised creek through the rented porch

IT’S EASIER TO LIVE for months high up in the redwood canopy than to pass seven days at ground level. Everything is owned; a one-year-old knows that. It’s as much a law as Newton’s. Walking down the street without cash is a crime, and no one alive would imagine for a minute that things in real life…

A girl called Trillium shouts, “We’re just trying to protect a good thing.”

“Why don’t you protect what belongs to you, and let us protect our jobs and our family and our own mountains and our way of life?”

“The trees don’t belong to anyone,” Doug-fir says. “The trees belong to the forest.”
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Adam marvels at her bulwark optimism, even after the routs she has suffered