A Favorite Quote
Nov. 16th, 2005 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyI've mentioned in a previous post that I collect quotes. These quotes are ones that I've found interesting or meaningful over the years and I now have a slim notebook full of them. I've decided to occasionally post a quote in case anyone else might also find it interesting. Today's quote is by James Blish, a wonderful SF writer who passed on in 1975.
Epilogue from All the Stars a Stage
It is written
That given any one of a thousand million possible paths, life will take them all;
That worlds which will support life will give birth to it;
That worlds which cannot support life will be colonized;
And that where both can take place, both will take place.
It is written that this is what the vast interstellar stage is for: To be given consciousness and purpose while its gift of existence lasts.
It is written;
That this is a random process;
That in the end all will be darkness and silence again;
But that while it lasts, life spreads through it, to make it aware of its own vastness and beauty, which otherwise it can never have known.
This is a gift, but the Giver is unknown.
That too is written.
Epilogue from All the Stars a Stage
It is written
That given any one of a thousand million possible paths, life will take them all;
That worlds which will support life will give birth to it;
That worlds which cannot support life will be colonized;
And that where both can take place, both will take place.
It is written that this is what the vast interstellar stage is for: To be given consciousness and purpose while its gift of existence lasts.
It is written;
That this is a random process;
That in the end all will be darkness and silence again;
But that while it lasts, life spreads through it, to make it aware of its own vastness and beauty, which otherwise it can never have known.
This is a gift, but the Giver is unknown.
That too is written.
