Quotes About Survival

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

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit." She

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

You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

We are the people of Misr," the old woman rasped. "Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.

From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations.

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We

What happens when you think like a Fremen? 'You remember that you should never be in company that you wouldn't want to die with.

Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.

Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.

off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." What do you despise?

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. —PARDOT KYNES, FIRST PLANETOLOGIST OF ARRAKIS

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

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

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)

When you live upon Arrakis," she had said, "khala, the land is empty. The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

The old woman said: "You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

The sandy juice of his fears could not be avoided.

Usul gives moisture to the dead!