"...am I not, then...what leads you to this conclusion...?...because I have been too slow for your liking...?...what do you consider a higher level...?...as it may be as simple a matter of that...if you mean of cultural and technological development...then do you blame me for not taking a more direct hand in it...rather than trying to allow it to grow without interference...?...I do not mind leaving the Pantheon if that is truly what both all three of you desire...I would rather not, but if we can only disagree, it might be for the best..."
"...if you desire to know how I wish to bring the world to a higher level...consider for a moment, please...that a healthy ecosystem requires a variety of inhabitants...and a burgeoning population...you think I have been wasting my time, then...? On creating Great Trees...or allowing them to grow and learn on their own...?...I do not know what effect my actions may have that I might be unaware of...I would rather not ruin their progress by fiddling too much...it is not my way...the larger the population, though...the more like ideas are to advance...the more variety within that population...the same can be said...what's more...do you mean the worlds themselves...or those who inhabit them...?...I would very much like to hear what reasons you have to believe a god of Growth...would be uninterested in raising up the world...because I seek to find ways to invest and to safeguard myself and my creations...?...perhaps it is precisely because I cannot fathom what it is that would truly lead to such a conclusion...that is the problem itself...and if that is so... then you have my apologies, friend...but I cannot make a rebuttal to what I do not know..."
"...I will decline, for the moment...to continue speaking of the three...as I believe that we have come to as much of an agreement...as we ever will..."