Hainish Cycle Quotes

“you speak the truth. Much will be lost. I know it. The lesser knowledge must be given to gain the greater. And not once only.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Four Ways to Forgiveness

“How does one hate a country, or love one? [...] What is the sense of giving a boundary [...] of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Plants: infinite plants, not one species known to the visitors from the house of Man. Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Infinite silences. Only the wind moved, swaying leaves and fronds, a warm soughing wind laden with spores and pollens, blowing the sweet pale-green dust over prairies of great grasses, heaths that bore no heather, flowerless forests where no foot had ever walked, no eye had ever looked. A warm, sad world, sad and serene.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow