You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
Kim StanleyIt's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.
Kim StanleyMany of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.
Kim StanleyWhat kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.
Kim StanleyEach of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back
Kim StanleyWeโll all say that. Weโll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until itโs all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and weโll be here, and weโll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.
Kim Stanley