Rene Dubos Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Struggle, Disease

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

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

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Art, Long

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.198, Rutgers University Press

• 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.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Home, Blood

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

• With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Association, States

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.27, Rutgers University Press

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin