The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment… - Ursula K. Le Guin

To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

We live well in the houses—well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from home. We keep a little knowledge, and do nothing with it. But once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. We did man’s work.

The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.