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• Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals, is paradise for Earth plants.
  The high nitrate content of the soil and the rich yellow sunlight bring an abundant harvest wherever adjustments can be made for the unusual soil conditions....
• Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth'
  on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino acids, the inevitable chemical and structural differences from a billion years of evolution in an alien environment render the native plant life highly poisonous to humans....
• Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
  -- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue...
• You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend.
  We shall take you in, but may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath disease?...
• As the writhing, teeming mass of Mind Worms swarmed over the outer perimeter, we saw the defenders recoil in horror.
  Stay calm! Use your flame guns!" shouted the commander, but to no avail....
• You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants.
  Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the trace elements required for life....
• You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried so young among the aeons.
  Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails, paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you....
• You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre, Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.
  -- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Plane...
• Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal bloom
  just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink....