What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

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.

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

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

The 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.