344 Quotes by Richard Powers

How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

Yesterday’s political criminals are on today’s postage stamps!

Too many species to count. Reefs bleach and wetlands dry. Things are going lost that have not yet been found. Kinds of life vanish a thousand times faster than the baseline extinction rate. Forest larger than most countries turns to farmland. Look at the life around you; now delete half of what you see.

When you’re sure of what you’re looking at, look harder.

It occurs to Adam where the word radical came from. Radix. Wrad. Root. The plant’s, the planet’s, brain.

I never knew how strong a drug other people are.

Insecurity will always be a growth industry. The economy now depends on fear.

Evil is the refusal to see one’s self in others.

Time alters what can be owned, and who may do the owning. Humankind is utterly wrong about the neighbors, and no one can see it. We must repay the world for every idea, every thing we have ever stolen.