Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Quotes

“Plants: infinite plants, not one species known to the visitors from the house of Man. Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Infinite silences. Only the wind moved, swaying leaves and fronds, a warm soughing wind laden with spores and pollens, blowing the sweet pale-green dust over prairies of great grasses, heaths that bore no heather, flowerless forests where no foot had ever walked, no eye had ever looked. A warm, sad world, sad and serene.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

“Her personal instability was seldom so plain as now: a profound self-distrust manifesting itself as destructivism.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow