"We think of space as a place we send cameras 
— to bring home pictures, data, discoveries. 
That is the explorer's view, not the settler's view. 

The settler looks at the same emptiness 
and sees something different: 
Open prairie: Hostile, demanding, unforgiving
— but available. 
Room for towns, for farms, for children 
growing up under a different sky. 

Humanity has always moved toward empty prairies.
Space is the next one."