The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

... 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.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

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