The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
-PARDOT KYNES, Ecology of Bela Tegeuse, Initial Report to the Imperium
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
-PARDOT KYNES, Ecology of Bela Tegeuse, Initial Report to the Imperium
The individual is the key, the final effective unit of all biological processes.
-PARDOT KYNES
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
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
The increasing variety and abundance of life itself vastly multiplies the
number of niches available for life. The resulting system is a web of makers
and users, eaters and eaten, collaborators and competitors.
-PARDOT KYNES, Report to Emperor Shaddam IV