“In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.”
Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
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Famous Rene Dubos Quotes
“What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.”
“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.”
“Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.”
Source: Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
“It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.”