Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

But I could be wrong.