Edgar Degas Ballerina and Lady with a Fan paintingEdgar Degas At the Milliners painting
ubiquitous shrub, a cotton bush which produces fiber to spin, edible roots, and leaves for tea. Aside from the necessary bacteria there aren't more than twenty or thirty species of animal or plant in the world. All of them, including the bacteria, are "useful" and "harmless"—to human beings.
there is a product of engineering. It was designed. Utopia indeed. Everything human beings need and nothing they don't need. Panthers, condors, manatees—who needs them?
Roman's Planary Guide says the Nna Mmoy are "degener- ( ate remnants of a great ancient culture." Roman has things backward. What is degenerate on their plane is the web of life. The "great ancient culture" took a vast, rich, incalculably complex tapestry, like that clothes our world, and reduced it to a miserable scrap.
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