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.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
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.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"A Comparative Biology of Planet"
Related:
- Although Planet's native life is based, like Earth's
on right-handed DNA, and codes for all the same amino... - The prevalence of anoxic environments rich in organic material
combined with the presence of nitrated compounds has... - 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... - The Isle of the Deep is really not a single creature but a colony
of thousands of individual tubules
an aquatic vector of the Mind Worm which terrorizes... - You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre
and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take... - You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants
Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the... - Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill
Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with... - Observe the Razorbeak as it tends so carefully to the fungal blooms
just the right bit from the yellow, then a swatch from... - 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...
