Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.