Frank Herbert Quotes

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

It's nice to think about having everything natural and similar to pre-Columbian times.... In fact, man himself has long been part of that environment and there is no way to separate him from that environment.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Earth was not built to serve the needs of humans.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.