Aldo Leopold Quotes

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

Don't fix what's not broken.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

You don't let a historic site rot.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make it survive. If you know you are not going to take care of that tree, don't bother