Yes, I agree with that, and realize the cycle of life on this planet. Some of the people who say such things, are usually parroting someone else. Never thinking for themselves, in my opinion.
Only humans have the capability to rehabilitate vast areas of deserts in one generation. Correcting the mistakes of the past. Mimicking natures process.
I often think about the wasted resources of our planet, during the era of the cold war, all that money and material. What sort of world would we have, if those resources had been used to change mono-culture farming? Using permaculture to build soil, instead of eroding it.