Living Beyond Myself

unwillingadventurer:

FIRST-ELDER: When I listen to you, you who are so young among your own kind, I realise that we Sensorites have a lot to learn from the people of Earth.
SUSAN: Well Grandfather and I don’t come from Earth. Oh, it’s ages since we’ve seen our planet. It’s quite like Earth, but at night the sky is a burnt orange; and the leaves on the trees are bright silver…

(The Sensorites, 1964)

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The Doctor: I could pretend, for a bit I could imagine they were still alive under that burnt orange sky…

…You should have seen it that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver. When they caught the light every morning it looked like a forest on fire.

(Gridlock, 2007)