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L.S.K.

JAMA. 1970;212(1):146.

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Unfortunately, the things we want often have disagreeable side-effects. These we ignore as long as we can, but when they no longer can be ignored and become too insistent, then the undesirable starts to outweigh the desirable.

In our struggle against side-effects we tend to lose sight of the remarkable resilience of nature, and to forget that excess in one area always brings about a compensation in some other area. We cannot always guess in what direction the compensation will take place. But we do know that the old term "balance of nature" is rather meaningless, for nature is always in balance. All changes bring about an equilibrium, but quite often the new balance surprises and disconcerts us. When we become attached to a particular environment, then any alteration threatens our familiar values. Nature, constantly reaching an equilibrium, decrees that we must either modify and control our activities (and desires) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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