quote: ...And following that train of thought led him back to Earth, back to the quiet hours in the center of the clear water ringed by a bowl of tree-covered hills. That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets and wings and birds...
I really don't know why I'm posting this.
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Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
Excellent quote! It zones in on the art of nature, that is all too often ill-appreciated. It's great how he still sets aside a moment of appreciation for it within his impressive and elaborate creations of science fiction.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
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