"Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which is a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuation of annual weather and, occasionally ma observe such things as "This is a colder year than I've ever known." Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive on any planet. They must learn climate."
---Arrakis, the Transformation
After Harq al-Ada
((Children of Dune by Frank Herbert 1976))
Makes you think, eh?
 Yokolita · Thu Oct 09, 2008 @ 05:49pm · 2 Comments |
