Miranda

“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Time took her strength but it gave her power in exchange. It was a fair trade.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Immortality,” said Crake, “is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be …”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely. It is easier to manipulate a river by building a dam than it is to predict all the complex consequences this will have for the wider ecological system.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century