Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms;
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink.
Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores.
What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something
is {managing} the ecology of this planet.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from the pink.
Follow the Glow Mites as they gather and organize the fallen spores.
What higher order guides their work? Mark my words: someone or something
is {managing} the ecology of this planet.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"
Related:
- I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing
to listen.
These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken... - Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's,
on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino... - The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about
the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth.
But when, once every hundred million years or so, the... - Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with... - Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals,
is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content... - In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly
beautiful stand of white pine,
planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents... - You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre,
Almost we pruned you,
as we may yet prune your branches. -- Lady... - You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre,
and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take... - Having now established a secure perimeter, we have made ourselves
relatively safe from enemy incursions.
But against the seemingly random attacks by Planet's...
From the same category:
- Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate
exactly the first tiny dot of color,
and then the next and the next, you would end with... - You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre,
and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take... - Time dilates as the speed of light approaches. To the extent that
light consists of particles,
it is in its own way timeless. Through simple perturbations... - Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and
became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled.
The consequence, of course, will be another public... - Red-hot iron, white-hot iron, cold-black iron; an iron taste,
and iron smell, and a Babel of iron sounds. ...
