Smith

…it is much easier to rationalize the profit-driven rape of earth and body alike if that nature is objectified. (Smith, 2006: xii).

— Smith, N. (2006). Foreword. In: Heynen, N. C., Kaika, M. & Swyngedouw, E. In the nature of cities: urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism, xi-xv. London: Routledge.