Quotes About Adaptation

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

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.

How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.

Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.

Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

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

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

Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.

Humans have a tendency to complain whenever the old must give way to the new. But change is the natural way of the universe, and we must learn to embrace it rather than fear it. The very process of transformation and adaptation strengthens the species.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, diesen Welten nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

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

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