Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among….

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny..

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race..

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back..

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment..

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization..

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling b….

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively..

The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped ….

The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environme….

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances..

It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis ….

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past….

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended..

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important..

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration..

Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability o….

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute co….

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned popul….

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature..

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was ho….