The expansion of human civilization is also a history of the migration of life. From early expeditionary fleets to today’s spacecraft, vessels have carried seeds, crops, and specimens across land and ocean, and even into outer space. Living things are collected, named, and relocated, put to use for “me.” From Crosby’s “ecological imperialism” to the “Plantationocene” discussed by Haraway and Anna Tsing, this logic has been questioned again and again: when did making nature serve human ends become the self-evident premise of civilization?