"The world was so new and different then, with a menace lurking within every flower and a bomb behind every sunrise. Together we beat a world, you and I, for nothing really wanted us here and everything disputed our coming. We cut and burnt our way across the land and over the seas, and we fought under the seas and in the skies, until there was nothing left to oppose us. Then cities we built, and kingdoms, and we raised up those we chose to rule over them, until they ceased to amuse us and we cast them down again."

- Zelazny 'Lord of Light'