Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest …

Orson Scott Card
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Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2013). The Ender Quintet, p.235, Macmillan
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