12 Quotes by William H. McNeill

...if human numbers increase, the rate of infection also increases.

Nonetheless, the way infectious diseases have begun to come back shows that we remain caught in the web of life – permanently and irretrievably- no matter how clever we are at altering what we do not like, or how successful we become at displacing other species.

We remain part of the earth’s ecosystem, and participate in the food chain whereby we kill and eat various plants and animals, while our bodies provide a fair field full of food for a great variety of parasites.