Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos Character Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. — Rene Dubos Climate Copy Share Image
Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature. — Rene Dubos Ability Copy Share Image
“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.” — René Dubos Environment Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Continuity Copy Share Image
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos Can do Copy Share Image
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. — Rene Dubos Concepts Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Belief Copy Share Image
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization. — Rene Dubos Animal Copy Share Image
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on… — Rene Dubos Constructive Copy Share Image
Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become… — Rene Dubos Believe Copy Share Image
The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle… — Rene Dubos Disease Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place… — Rene Dubos Association Copy Share Image
...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to… — Rene Dubos Acting Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Absence Copy Share Image
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to… — Rene Dubos Abstract Copy Share Image
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression… — Rene Dubos Challenges Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Crisis Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Adventure Copy Share Image
It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis… — Rene Dubos Human beings Copy Share Image
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Behavior Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. — Rene Dubos Decision Copy Share Image
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos Climate Copy Share Image
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos Decision Copy Share Image
Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. — Rene Dubos Adventure Copy Share Image
In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom. — Rene Dubos Boredom Copy Share Image
Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended. — Rene Dubos Biology Copy Share Image
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body. — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the… — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos Bounds Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
