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• 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...
• 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?...
• Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
  -- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue...
• 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....
• No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars!
  And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning....
• 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 our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth....
• You are welcome.
• Aelborne: "You are our visitors. Welcome, welcome." -- "Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4
• You see in this dome the intermingling of native and earth plants.
  Outside, they are competitors, struggling over the trace elements required for life....