Kynes Quotes

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

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.

Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,' Kynes said. 'You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. It's aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. 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.

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.

Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. —LIET-KYNES,

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. Even

War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called “humanity” finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus

Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.

If I can do it, I'll do it better than it was ever done before, and if I can't do that I'll quit to save you the embarrassment of firing me.

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called “registering” the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.

I'd like to see what becomes of you, Juniper Kynes. A human like you, in Hell, can be a powerful thing.

It became apparent to the Fremen that Kynes was not a madman totally, just mad enough to be holy.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

There’s an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,” Kynes said. “You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. 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.” This

The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem,” Kynes said, “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. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses.

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

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate." "It's rare to find members of a Great House aware of planetological problems," Kynes said. "Water is the least favorable condition for life on Arrakis. And remember that growth itself can produce unfavorable conditions unless treated with extreme care.

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

For long lifetimes marked by the hulks of ruined planets, man was a geological and ecological force without knowing it, with little awareness of his own strength. — PARDOT KYNES, The Long

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?” “To make this planet a fit place for humans,” Paul said. Perhaps that’s why I help them, Kynes thought.

And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: “He shall know your ways as though born to them.

Arrakis has it's own way determining who wears the mantle of authority,' Kynes said.

The individual is shocked by the overwhelming discovery of his own mortality. The species, however, is different. It need not die. —PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

Beneath a world—in its rocks, its dirt and sedimentary overlays—there you find the planet’s memory, the complete analog of its existence, its ecological memory. —PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

The four galloping horsemen were abreast The Three Deuces when the cry of "Robbers!" aroused all Wickenburg. It awoke the man in the chair; and he came to his feet with the suddenness of a ferocious old dog, filled both hands and cut loose at one of the four horsemen. There was a reason for this. The elderly citizen had a deposit of three dollars and seventeen cents in the Wickenburg National.

So he stuck in his stick o' dynamite an' it's only a fool's luck he didn't blow himself up doin' it. I wisht he had; but he didn't. He just put Terrapin Tanks out o' business forever—cracked the granite floor o' that sump-hole an' busted down the sides, an' the water's run out into the sand an' the tanks run dry. They'll stay dry. We can have cloudbursts in this country from now until I get religion, but them tanks'll never hold another drop o' water. That fool tenderfoot's dead, I guess; but he's goin' to keep right on killin' people just the same. Men'll keep comin' here, bankin' on water—an' in five years there'll be a dozen skeletons round that busted tank.

What is your name?" she asked wearily. "Tom Gibbons." "And yours?" turning to The Wounded Bad Man. "Bill Kearny." She glanced inquiringly at The Youngest Bad Man. "Bob Sangster," he replied. "Will you save my baby?" Slowly, searchingly, the wonderful eyes confronted each Bad Man in turn.

Death is a terrible thing, Tom," he sobbed. "Life's worse," said The Wounded Bad Man gently. He was seated apart, with the baby in his arms, shielding it from the sun with his broad sombrero. "Death can only get you once, but Life is a ghost dance. I wonder what it has in store for you, kidlets. I wonder.

Well, that's up to the last of the godfathers," said The Wounded Bad Man. "Mind you learn him hoss-sense, Bob. Don't let him grow up to wear eyeglasses before he's twenty-one years old, an' make him say 'sir' when he speaks to you. Teach him hoss-sense and respect, Bob. Them's the two great requirements to a man's education

Here, I ain't carryin' an ounce o' weight," he expostulated. "Bill's carryin' th' water an' the airtight milk an' the feedin' bottle an' the camp kettle and our grub, an' you're carryin' the baby an' a bundle of extra clothes. Lemme spell you a few miles, Bill. You're in bad shape with that sore shoulder, an' you're goin' to wear yourself out too soon.

I've done a heap o' ornery things in my day," he growled, "but I ain't stealin' the water that belongs to my godson. Don't you insult me no more, Tom Gibbons.

Cut out the crooked work, son. Nobody has anythin' on you yet—start straight an' raise this boy straight, an' if ever you spot him showin' signs o' breakin' away from the reservation, just you remind him that a woman an' two men died to make a man outer him. That's all. I ain't goin' to try to talk no more.

—Arrakis es un planeta de un solo cultivo —dijo su padre—. Un solo cultivo. Esto mantiene a una clase dominante, que vive como siempre han vivido las clases dominantes, aplastando bajo ellas a una masa semihumana de medio esclavos que sobreviven de lo que ellas desechan. Son esas masas y esos desechos los que ocupan nuestra atención. Tienen mucho más valor del que nunca se ha sospechado. (...) —Las masas de Arrakis sabrán que estamos trabajando para hacer que un día estas tierras rezumen agua —dijo su padre—. La mayor parte de ellas, por supuesto, adquirirán tan sólo una comprensión casi mística de nuestro proyecto. Muchos, sin pensar en la prohibitiva relación de masas en juego, pensarán que vamos a traer el agua de otro planeta rico en ella. Déjalos que crean en lo que quieran, mientras crean en nosotros (...) -Nuestra tabla de tiempos tendrá los valores de un fenómeno natural —dijo su padre—. La vida de un planeta es como un enorme tejido de apretados hilos. Al principio surgirán mutaciones animales y vegetales determinadas por las fuerzas primordiales de la naturaleza que vamos a manipular. Pero a medida que se vayan estabilizando, todos nuestros cambios ejercerán también sus propias influencias... con las cuales deberemos contar. No olvides nunca, de todos modos, que basta con controlar tan sólo el tres por ciento de la energía existente en la superficie... sólo el tres por ciento, para transformar toda la estructura de un sistema autosuficiente (...). Una profunda claridad inundó la mente de Kynes. De pronto fue consciente de una posibilidad para Arrakis que su padre no había visto. Las implicaciones de esta posibilidad fueron como una sacudida. —No podría haber mayor desastre para tu pueblo que el caer en manos de un Héroe —dijo su padre. ¡Está leyendo en mi mente!, pensó Kynes. Bien... que lea

In the silence that followed, they heard Kynes. 'Bless the Maker and His water,' Kynes murmured. 'Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises. —LIET-KYNES THE ARRAKIS WORKBOOK

Imperial man,” said Turok, stepping forward from the shade, “what is it you see when you stare out onto the desert like that?” Kynes answered without looking at him. “I see limitless possibilities.

Dune,” the Fremen youth said. “Only the Imperials and the Harkonnens call this place Arrakis.” “All right,” Kynes said. “Dune, then.

Kynes had assumed that when he finally found a hidden Fremen settlement, it would be primitive, almost shameful in its lack of amenities. But here, in this walled-off grotto with side caves and lava tubes and tunnels extending like a warren throughout the mountain, Kynes saw that the desert people lived in an austere yet comfortable style. Quarters here rivaled anything Harkonnen functionaries enjoyed in the city of Carthag. And it was much more natural.

I should’ve suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive,” Kynes said.

—¿Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.

Discovery is dangerous … but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved world-view centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these desert dwellers seem brutish … just as outsiders appear to them. Pardot Kynes, The People of Arrakis

Religion and law among the masses must be one and the same. An act of disobedience must be a sin and require religious penalties. This will have the dual benefit of bringing both greater obedience and greater bravery. We must depend not so much on the bravery of individuals, you see, as upon the bravery of a whole population. Pardot Kynes, address to gathered representatives of the greater sietches

The working Planetologist has access to many resources, data, and projections. However, his most important tools are human beings. Only by cultivating ecological literacy among the people themselves can he save an entire planet. Pardot Kynes, The Case for Bela Tegeuse

Arrakis!” Kynes could not restrain his astonishment—and yes, pleasure—at the prospect. “I believe the nomadic Fremen inhabitants call it Dune.

Kynes had said: “…the shortening of the way.” In the old tongue, the phrase translated as “Kwisatz Haderach.

Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: “You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

Juniper Kynes, for example. Adorable. Murderous. Vicious. And bound to be mine.

Juniper Kynes, I fully intend to spend eternity showing you just how much I love you. I’ll dance in the rubble of that fucking wall forever.

Duke: How is a planet to become an Eden without money? Kynes: What is money if it won't buy the services you need?

Juniper Kynes,” he drawled. “The girl who got away. The sacrifice who...wasn’t. A soul who escaped from a God.

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. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

Juniper Kynes, I fully intend to spend eternity showing you just how much I love you. I’ll dance in the rubble of that fucking wall forever

Discovery is dangerous…but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

It’s a rule of ecology,” Kynes said, “that the young Master appears to understand quite well. The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system. Blood’s an efficient energy source.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem,’ Kynes said, ‘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.

Para Pardot Kynes, el planeta no era más que una expresión de la energía, una máquina movida por un sol.

The course had been set by this time, the Ecological- Fremen were aimed along their way. Liet-Kynes had only to watch and nudge and spy upon the Harkonnens…until the day his planet was afflicted by a Hero.

There’s an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,” Kynes said. “You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. 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.

A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has oder, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem,” Kynes said, “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. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

He took both my hands, and kissed the other one just the same as he had the first, before he laid my palms against his chest. “Juniper Kynes, a storm manifested in human form, is afraid of a bargain?” He leaned close and kissed my neck, pausing with his lips barely brushing beneath my ear. “No, you’re not. You’re afraid of something far bigger than that. And I’ll tell you something, Juniper — this is a hell of a lot more than a bargain. I’m not fucking around. I don’t fuck around when I find something I want.