“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”– Albert Schweitzer Related Quotes “Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”– Leo Tolstoy “Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”– Horace Walpole “Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.”– Jean Ingelow