and try and find something
to keep you awake a little longer,...
..because this transmission coming up
may just rekindle your will to live.
You think it'll be a recall?
Let's just say that
I feel my communications...
..may finally bear some fruit.
Mm. Cantaloupes, maybe.
I'll let that witticism slide by,...
..because it's my feeling
that they're about to re-establish...
..the parks and forests system.
- With you as director?
- You can think of anybody better?
More qualified? Huh?
- Really, it's...
- No, wait a second.
Let me just ask him a question here.
I've spent my last eight years
up here, dedicated to this project.
Now, can you think of
anybody more qualified?
It's more likely that
they're gonna announce cutbacks.
Sorry. There's no way they'll announce
cutbacks, not after this amount of time.
Hey, Lowell, you're dreaming.
And you don't think it's time
somebody had a dream again, huh?
You don't think that it's time that
somebody cared enough to have a dream?
What about the forests? You don't
think anyone should care about them?
What's gonna happen if these forests and
all this incredible beauty is lost for ever?
It's been too long, Lowell.
People have got other things to do now.
Hi, this is for Valley Forge,
Berkshire, Sequoia.
This is Com Central. Channel open
for executive order AUC3423.
Listen to this, boys.
This is Anderson speaking.
Boys, I have to make an announcement.
We have just received orders to abandon...
..and nuclear-destruct all the forests...
..and return our ships
to commercial service.
I received no explanation...
..and we must begin at 0900
in the morning.
May God have mercy on us all.
- This is it! We're goin' home!
- I can't believe it!
- I told you! What'd I say?
- We pack up those domes and go home.
Destruct all forest units.
Kiss 'em goodbye, boys.
Hey, Lowell, I'm sorry.
It makes sense, you know?
It's insane.
Let's go.
Heels of children running wild
In the sun
Like a forest is your child
Growing wild
In the sun
Doomed in his innocence
In the sun
Gather your children to your side
In the sun
Tell them all they love will die
Tell them why
In the sun
Tell them it's not too late
Cultivate, one by one
Tell them to harvest
And rejoice
In the sun
How far out do they go before they blow?
About six miles.
We should feel a hefty jolt.
- I want a front-row seat when they go!
- I'll bet you do.
Lowell, do you have to eat
that stuff in here? It stinks.
You never let up, do you?
Oh.
Now you hurt his feelings.
I'd like to know what
any one of you knows about real food.
What do you mean, real food?
Out of the dirt? That's real food?
That's right. This happens
to be nature's greatest gift.
To a celibate, maybe.
Come on, you guys.
Maybe he knows something we don't.
Lowell, give me a slice
of that cantaloupe.
Don't ask Lowell for a slice.
I'd be delighted to give you a slice of it.
Just sit down and shut up.
Sit down. Sit down!
And shut up and leave me alone,
all of you, and let me eat.
What's the big deal? I can't see
the difference between that and this.
You don't see the difference?
The difference is that I grew it.
That's what the difference is.
I picked it and I fixed it.
And it has a taste, and it has some colour
and it has a smell.
It calls back a time when there
were flowers all over the earth.
There were valleys, and there were
plains of tall green grass...
..that you could lie down in,
that you could go to sleep in.
There were blue skies
and there was fresh air.
There were things growing everywhere,
not just in domes...
..blasted millions of miles out into space.
Look at that stuff. How can you guys sit
there and say anything to me about this?
Look at this crap! Look at that!
Dried, synthetic crap!
You've become so dependent on it,
I bet you can't even live without it.
Why would we want to, Lowell?
Don't you realise how pitiful that is,
what you just asked me?
On earth,