Herbert dedicated his work "to the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of 'real materials'—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration."
Herbert je svoj rad posvetio "ljudima čiji napori idu dalje od ideja, u carstvo 'pravih materijala', prema ekolozima suhe zemlje, gdje god bili, u kojem god vremenu radili, ovaj trud predviđanja posvećen je u poniznosti i divljenju".