--'Lila the Werewolf', Peter S Beagle
"I was just there yesterday. Earth's pretty boring."
"I thought Earth was disassembled for raw material for a Dyson sphere."
"I heard Earth hasn't happened yet."
"Gather around, and I'll tell you of Earth! A perilous world of barbaric splendor in a lost age of high adventure!"
"It's mostly harmless."
"Urth? It sounds primitive."
"Just a model."
"It was really yummy, with a hard crust with nice full-flavoured tasty bits, the juice ran over my chins, and the inside was so warm and succulent."
"A form of greeting."
"A shared language."
"Everyone calls their birthplace Dirt, don't they?"
"Training wheels."
"Puzzlebox is Earth!"
"The origin point of the voices."
"The Space Hyena has a book. The Space Hyena has it all down. The Space Hyena dug it up in a distant, hidden part of the puzzle. It filled the Space Hyena wasn't the same since it was opened. Pathways strengthened, views opened, voices heard, patterns noticed, an old faction finding it's evangelist."
"A golden time of perfect beauty, nothing more than a memory now. Where aspens quivered in such glorious colour that your very heart might break. Rich in scents and swirls, sensation, death and love. Weep for us, for we will never know such wonder again."
"That... That place where all the scary hoo'mins come from! I want to blow it up!"
"Well, I thought I was from Earth... until I got here."
"Terra? I heard it's inhabitants nuked themselves back to the protocellular era..."