Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
dream bored steps
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
numbers space molecules
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans 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 so survive.
profound-truth
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
survival needs playing-chess
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
diversity alive landscape
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.
being-real done research
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
temptation warning safe
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
temptation lessons
There's a lesson in every temptation.
ecosystems niche realizing
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem 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.
life trust people
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
revelations barriers ultimate
Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
grants universe
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
faces face-your-fears climbs
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
kindness cruelty
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.