"I didn't spend much time in the wilderness of the place - I was a child, not an explorer, then. But the cities were... It will sound stereotypical to call them 'calm'. But they were. There was an abundance of activity, carried out efficiently and neatly, without fuss or drama. I might have chosen to live there as an adult, if it had still been available then and if my father's people did not, as a group, demonstrate such insularity as regards hybrids."