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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

Resilience, immanence, numen—qualities his discipline is notoriously poor in measuring

“People make reality. Hydroelectric dams. Undersea tunnels. Supersonic transport. Tough to stand against that.”

Watchman smiles, tired. “We don’t make reality. We just evade it. So far. By looting natural capital and hiding the costs. But the bill is coming, and we won’t be able to pay.”

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