How we cite our quotes: ("Story Name," Paragraph)
Quote #7
"The way I see it is there's a Truth on every planet. All parts of the Big Truth. On a certain day they'll all fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw." ("The Fire Balloons," 224)
This is Father Stone, who has just has his mind blown by an encounter with the blue sphere Martians. But Father Stone has a vision here of the universe being part of one natural order. You have to wonder if that natural order includes Earth Men flying rockets all the way to Mars.
Quote #8
The old Martian names were names of water and air and hills. [ . . . ] And the rockets struck at the names like hammers, breaking away the marble into shale, shattering the crockery milestones that named the old towns, in the rubble of which great pylons were plunged with new names: IRON TOWN, STEEL TOWN, ALUMINUM CITY, ELECTRIC VILLAGE, CORN TOWN, GRAIN VILLA, DETROIT II, all the mechanical names and the metal names from Earth. ("The Naming of Names," 2)
This is the "Spender was right" chapter. As he predicted, humans renamed everything on Mars. While the Martian names were natural, the human names are mechanical—all related to business and industry. We get it, Bradbury: you think our priorities are out of order. Seriously, we get it.
Quote #9
"But, as I was saying, Hathaway, there's nothing on Jupiter, nothing at all for men. That includes Saturn and Pluto." ("The Long Years," 97)
Maybe Captain Wilder is telling the truth here, but what if he's not? Maybe Jupiter is actually really great, but Wilder wants to protect it by giving it a negative review. You know, like that great little restaurant you don't want anybody else to know about. Maybe that's the only way to protect a foreign environment—to keep people away from it.