Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. Rene Dubos More Quotes by Rene Dubos More Quotes From Rene Dubos 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. Rene Dubos body soul men 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 and is almost universal. Rene Dubos nature expression past Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature. Rene Dubos vegetables men believe Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. Rene Dubos struggle danger adventure It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease. Rene Dubos health civilization facts Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended. Rene Dubos intention evolution may Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. Rene Dubos environmental nature running ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. Rene Dubos age dark may ... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence. Rene Dubos risk danger men ... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard. Rene Dubos groups community civilization More can be learned from what works than from what fails. Rene Dubos fails learned than more
