Behinds Quote by Frances Hardinge

We spend too much time hiding illness.

— Roger Ebert

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese…

— Joe Biden

“Today, Americans spend billions of dollars every year to maintain a strong national defence as a deterrent against external attack by foreign powers, but…

— Daniel Reid

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated,…

— Hippocrates

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood…

— Nancy Travis

“Every pandemic in the history of the world has come from China.”

— Lisa See

“Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out…

— Rose George

“One never thinks of China, but it is there all the time on the tips of your fingers and it makes your nose itchy;…

— Henry Miller

If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people…

— Peter Navarro

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so…

— Bob Geldof

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that…

— Sholem Asch

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

— James Fallows