Humans turn the places they ...

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?
 Tad Williams

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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
 Tad Williams
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