„…observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for ‘harmony with nature’—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i. e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears…“

— Ayn Rand

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„Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.“
— Ayn Rand
„For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.“
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
„In philosophical anthropology, … where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.“
— Martin Buber
„Poverty, ignorance, illness and other problems of that kind are not metaphysical emergencies. By the metaphysical nature of man and of existence, man has to maintain his life by his own effort; the values he needs—such as wealth or knowledge—are not given to him automatically, as a gift of nature, but have to be discovered and achieved by his own thinking and work.“
— Ayn Rand
„Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.“
— Antonio Gramsci
„Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.“
— P.T. Barnum