Rene Dubos Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

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

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  Destiny, Environmental, Strikes

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

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  Running, Nature, Environmental

• The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

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  Life, Struggle, Disease

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.2, Rutgers University Press

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

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Disease

• 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 population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

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  New York, Technology, Men

• Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.

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  Dark, Age, Acting

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

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  Mother, Three, Earth

  René Jules Dubos (1980). “The Wooing of Earth”, Scribner Book Company

• As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.

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  Life, Home, Blood

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

• 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 body and soul.

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  Men, Soul, Body

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

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  Science, Men, Decision

  Barbara Ward, René Jules Dubos (1972). “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”, Penguin Books

• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

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  Mean, Remembrance, Earth

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

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  Men, Earth Day, Quality

• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

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  Men, Decision, Tree

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