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Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

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

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturae - the most healing power of nature - are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

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

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

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

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

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.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

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

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

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

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

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