“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”Edmund Cooper The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
“But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.”Edmund Cooper Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)
“All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.”Edmund Cooper book Seed of LightSeed of Light (1959)
“For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.”Edmund Cooper book Seed of LightSeed of Light (1959)