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13 pages
First published January 1, 1953
”’[…] Earth is alive, teeming with life. Growing wildly — in all directions. We’re one form, an old form. To live here, we’d have to restore the old conditions, the old factors, the balance as it was three hundred and fifty years ago. A colossal job. And if we succeeded, if we managed to cool Earth, none of this would remain.’”
”’[…] Look at us. Shielded suits and helmets, spacesuits — for exploring. We’re a rocketship stopping at an alien world on which we can’t survive. Stopping for a brief period to load up — and then take off again.’”