You Dehumanize A Man As Much By Returning Him To Nature - By Making Him One With Rocks, Vegetation, And Animals - As By Turning Him Into A Machine. Both The Natural And The Mechanical Are The Opposite Of That Which Is Uniquely Human. Nature Is A Self-made Machine, More Perfectly Automated Than Any Automated Machine. To Create Something In The Image Of Nature Is To Create A Machine, And It Was By Learning The Inner Working Of Nature That Man Became A Builder Of Machines. It Is Also Obvious That When Man Domesticated Animals And Plants He Acquired Self-made Machines For The Production Of Food, Power, And Beauty. ~ Eric Hoffe