There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their in… - Arthur C. Clarke

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There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.