"The dinosaur and its fellow-creatures vanished from this earth long before there were any industrialists or any men . . . . But this did not end life on earth. 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, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 276