It is not man the ecological ...

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
 Rene Dubos

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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
 Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
 Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
 Rene Dubos
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
 Rene Dubos
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
 Rene Dubos
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
 Rene Dubos
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
 Rene Dubos