It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.
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
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
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. - Rene Dubos
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
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
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…
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environme… - Rene Dubos
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environme…
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
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…
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
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability o…
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. - Rene Dubos
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature. - Rene Dubos
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body. - Rene Dubos
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.
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