Quotes About Environment

She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

There was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

declared you could see buds unsheath themselves. Also you could make the acquaintance of strange busy insect things running about on various unknown but evidently serious errands, sometimes carrying tiny scraps of straw or feather or food or climbing blades of grass as if they were trees from whose tops one could look out to explore the country.

Donde cuides una rosa, muchacho, No puede crecer un cardo

They kept saying global warming wasn't going to be the end of us, that it was just theatre from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and floods and hurricanes and fires - every element expressing the earth's imbalance.

Organisms do not passively receive information from their environments, which they then translate into internal representations. Natural cognitive systems...participate in the generation of meaning ...engaging in transformational and not merely informational interactions: they enact a world.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, the Duke said. Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought. And she recalled a Bene Gesserit axiom: "The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

But, putting on a stillsuit, he put on the desert.

We don't die easily. I should be dead now... I will be dead soon... but I can't stop being an ecologist.

You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.

The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment.

Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings. -Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld)

Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.

Maker—their word for worm

ecology was the science of understanding consequences.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record. We have the record in front of us and our course is obvious.