What good is it to somebody who's going to have to go out and hoe a virgin planet?
It wasn't every day that a conservationist got a chance to engineer from scratch an absolutely virgin Earth-type planet.
I've been on six such colonizing ventures to virgin planets, not counting Secundlis.
So then we will have a virgin planet, larger than Earth, with about forty percent ocean and a mean temperature of twenty-five degrees.
We had a virgin planet with no set ways or traditions to uphold.
The corvette was dying, and life in space was a poor substitute for living under the warm sun of a virgin planet.
This was creating a gap in their own countries as the best and brightest left for the new opportunities to be found on the virgin planets.
God, what a carnival it would have been to have set them all down on a virgin planet and awakened them!
This is a virgin planet, for all intents and purposes.
We have all the knowledge Earth had at the time of the Pilgrimage he thought, and a virgin planet on which to use it.