The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturรฆโthe most healing power of natureโare so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
Rene DubosMen are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
Rene Dubos...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.
Rene DubosThe wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.
Rene Dubos