From space there was no sign of life.Moray, the heavy swarthy man who was the official representative of Earth Expeditionary, and in charge of the Colonists, said quietly, Don’t you mean no signs of a technological civilization, officer? Remember, until a scant four centuries ago, a starship approaching Earth could not have seen any signs of intelligent life there, either.
Download Image Share on X Share on Facebook

About This Quote

About Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley was a 20th-century American author. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. She was noted for the female perspective in her writing, something before little-seen in Sword and Sorcery fantasy. Read more on Wikipedia →

More quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
despair hope

“By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
belief faith philosophy

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
inspirational wisdom

“And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
belief world

“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It ...”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
change science-fiction the-future

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will ...”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
goddess religion salvation
View all quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley →