Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.
Karl MarxSociety is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
Karl MarxEvery emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
Karl Marx