“ I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. B… Wallace Stegner
“ Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races. John Scalzi
“ What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd come home and take over Earth.OK, not that. Orson Scott Card
“ Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? Anthony Burgess
“ It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I fin… Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees
“ What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish, and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to e… Massasoit
“ How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for… Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“ After Lincoln became president he campaigned for colonization, and even in the midst of war with the Confederacy found time to work on the project, appointing Rev. James Mitchell as Commissioner of Em… Jared Taylor
“ To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't be… Becky Chambers
“ Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community. Jesikah Sundin
“ The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life. Jesikah Sundin
“ Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracte… Jesikah Sundin
“ Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less. Jesikah Sundin
“ Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future. Jesikah Sundin
“ As the leaves randomly fell, she contemplated how they sacrificially gave up their essence to sustain new life. Or was it the tree’s sacrifice? Each leaf was a part of Gaia’s play. Their final act: to… Jesikah Sundin
“ She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation. Thomas Pierce
“ I am glad we have not yet been able to reach the stars or inhabitable planets that dance about them. For they would in all probability be owned and divided by corporations and framed by industrial int… Tom Althouse
“ It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end. Tsitsi Dangarembga
“ India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. Over the centuries, many powers have defeated Indian armie… William Dalrymple
