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One place we lost our way was naming places on this continent "New Something". This is another England, another France, another Spain, another Sweden, we thought. We should bring the same animals and crops from there to here; peel off the surface of home and lay it over this new place, crushing what was underneath.
I want to get New out of my vocabulary. Don't say New England, don't say Nouvelle France. York, England, Jersey, Hampshire, they are their own places.
I think of what we did here as Euroforming, like how astronauts in books do terraforming on Mars. It took a lot of work and a lot of time to breed oats and plum trees and pigs that could live here. Changing foreign animals and plants so they would fit this place.
@evan
Honeybees too, if I'm not mistaken.
@RealGene you are not.