" Abruptly Loerya joined the probing. “And if there is no Creator? Or if the creation is untended?” “Then who is there to reproach us? We provide the meaning of our own lives. If we serve the Land purely to the furthest limit of our abilities, what more can we ask of ourselves? "

― Stephen R. Donaldson , The Power That Preserves (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #3)