Found by Luna

“What we have is a concept of the earth which is an abstract one, an idea of a pristine original purity governs the thinking of the environmentalists and in terms of that concept man is sacrificed; the present natural order is sacrificed, to reestablish this abstract idea of what nature should be like. Nature is seen by these people as an abstraction but nature is rather a physical reality which man must utilize and develop.”

— R. J. Rushdoony