Rene Dubos Quotes

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Life will find a way.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.