“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.” PeopleShouldStudyLandConditionsHealthyDiseaseDoctorsOriginalsRegionsWildernessDisorderMechanismRepresentativesSampleNormality Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
“The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.” MenMeanYoungReadingPerfectResultsCareersStudyWallHealthyReflectionCatholicCurrentsObservationYoung ManHelpfulProfessorsAssociatesDestinedNew ThoughtTheologicalProtestantsStiflingSeminary Author:Andrew Dickson White
“How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.” BookWould BePastAttentionEnemyStudyHealthySickDepthWorthyAnalysisUnconsciousPriestsThrillingJarsForecastsNot WorthyFetusConsolingOld Books Author:Edmund White
“Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.” GivingWellsStudyHealthHabitHealthyManagementRisingMore TimeHouseholdDaylightHealthy Habits Author:Aristotle
“We were young. We were 23. I was a kid, growing up, that would burn and fry. I didn't understand why. We did all this study and research and learned so much about skin cells and rejuvenation and how the body works and (how) everybody is different. (We) learned what doctors do for treatment of certain things and so I changed my direction and opened up a skin-care company - healthy tanning, skin-care products and rejuvenation and all of that and it took off.” DifferentBodyCareKidsYoungCertainCompanyGrowing UpStudyGrowingChangedProductsHealthyResearchDoctorsSkinsCellsTreatmentKids Growing UpSkin CareRejuvenationTanningBody Work Author:Drew Waters
“I think it's too soon to say that, and I think, basically - most of the people that I ran across and most of the studies that I saw suggest people don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy food. They go to eat fries and cheeseburgers.” PeopleThinkingStudySawsHealthyRanMcdonaldsFriesHealthy FoodCheeseburger Author:Michael Specter