“How does one hate a country, or love one? [...] What is the sense of giving a boundary [...] of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?” Science FictionBordersHainish CyclePhilosophycalLeguin Book:The Left Hand of Darkness Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“you speak the truth. Much will be lost. I know it. The lesser knowledge must be given to gain the greater. And not once only.” ForgivenessScience FictionUrsula K Le GuinHainish Cycle Book:Four Ways to Forgiveness Source: Four Ways to Forgiveness
“Plants: infinite plants, not one species known to the visitors from the house of Man. Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Infinite silences. Only the wind moved, swaying leaves and fronds, a warm soughing wind laden with spores and pollens, blowing the sweet pale-green dust over prairies of great grasses, heaths that bore no heather, flowerless forests where no foot had ever walked, no eye had ever looked. A warm, sad world, sad and serene.” FictionScience FictionForestShort StoriesPlantsAlien PlanetHainish Cycle Book:Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Source: Vaster Than Empires and More Slow