Growing on another, perhaps harsher world, it has different form and features. But it is just as much a legitimate child of Nature as you are. You are displaying that childish human weakness of hating the different.

John W Campbell, Who Goes There? [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Campbell Who Goes There growing another harsher world different form features legitimate child of nature displaying childish human weakness hating different

Consider also:

  1. “I’d come to live as a human, to experience all the human traditions. And spending many a beautiful afternoon cooped up at the library service desk in order to make sure a bunch of middle schoolers weren’t playing dirty dating sims on the computers apparently counted as one.”
  2. “He constructed a brass trunk and etched binding symbols on its lid”
  3. “We are not interested in Space. Space holds no appeal to us whatsoever. Humanity has spent hundreds of years trying to find faster ways to get through Space precisely because we hate it so much. Space has no food, no booze, no women, none of the things that make life tolerable. The only reason I put up with Space at all is because I need somewhere to put my stuff.”
  4. “quite shaky, he began taking out the forty-nine yarrow stalks. Whole situation confusing and anomalous, he decided. No human intelligence could decipher it; only five-thousand-year-old joint mind applicable.”
  5. “You perfect yourself only by contributing to your fellow human beings and the world around.”