From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Ursula K. Le GuinPart of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Ursula K. Le GuinThere have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Ursula K. Le Guin