Quotes About Environment

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Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power.

Doesn't take much sense to know you shouldn't live in a place if you have to carry a gun.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

See how little I value my water when it is taken by animals.

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This

We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

You'll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit.

La sopravvivenza di se stessi, della specie, dell' ambiente, queste sono le cose che muovono gli esseri umani. Potete osservare come l'ordine d'importanza cambi nell'arco d'una vita. Quali sono le cose che suscitano una preoccupazione immediata a una certa età? Il clima? Lo stato della digestione? A lei o a lui importa davvero? Tutti quei vari tipi di fame che la carne sente e spera di soddisfare. Che altro può davvero importare?

Mentats share the fallibilities of those who use them," she said. "The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment. The mentat has learned to extend his awareness across many parallel loops of causality and to proceed along those loops for long chains of consequences

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said. "Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

Para Pardot Kynes, el planeta no era más que una expresión de la energía, una máquina movida por un sol.

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 historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

She saw and yet did not see the evening's banked colors across meadow and river. She heard and yet did not hear the

How the mind gears itself for its environment

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem,' Kynes said, 'is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping them with strange scythelike devices—dew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected.

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture.

The sandtrout," he repeated, "was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet . . . and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.

There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet.

they're destroying their environment. In the process, they're becoming not-men!

Dependency infrastructure is a term that includes all things necessary for a human population to survive at existing or increased numbers