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…

- Rene Dubos

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…

- Rene Dubos

Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Huma…

- Rene Dubos

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

- Rene Dubos

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

- Rene Dubos

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

- Rene Dubos

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

- Rene Dubos

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

- Rene Dubos

As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these…

- Rene Dubos