Rene Dubos Quotes
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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
The word 'wilderness', occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution, and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.