Capacity Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to…

— Anton Chekhov

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.' His smile thinned. 'Would you like to know how?'…

— R. Lee Smith

It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and…

— David Grinspoon

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be…

— John Shimkus

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance…

— Edward Abbey

But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses…

— Eckhart Tolle

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

— Ezra Pound

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

— William Ralph Inge

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation,…

— Albert Einstein

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned…

— Rene Dubos