Bacteria Quote by Henry Lindlahr

In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants…

— Elie Metchnikoff

“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out. Nearly all zoonotic diseases result from infection by one of six…

— David Quammen

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

— William James

“In all likelihood, the most significant of these is a heightened chance of acquiring harmful parasites or diseases from a conspecific. Both parasites and…

— Bill Schutt

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

— Michael Pollan

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

— Richard Preston

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

— William Thomas Councilman

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

— Malcolm Gladwell

... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building,…

— Hans Zinsser

Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.

— Steven Gundry

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

— Ben Jonson