That's mainly a load of philosophical crap that sounds nice, but is ironically the most furthest away from the real "truth" if there is something as a real "truth" at all.
Beings don't strive at anything and certainly not us. That kind of thinking is completely outdated as that are visions that were popular in the Middle Ages. Not to mention it would be the climax of human arrogance as you just placed them on the highest possible place imaginable: above nature.
There is no such thing as a standard nature. We call it nature just to call it something, but it's continuously changing. We call that changing evolution, however that implies easily as that it always changes into something better, but that's not the case. Evolution is neutral. It can be both positive as negative, it all depends on the situation and circumstances. You can say that species "adapt" themselves to nature. It's a phrase that's often used to make things understandable, however it's not entirely true. Due to genetical mutations unlimited new things and abilities come into existence. It's just shear luck that the one who has the ability which suits the conditions the best got it.
When you have a black bunny and a white bunny on the northpole, the white bunny will survive because it's harder to spot. The black bunny will just disappear because the speed at which it gets killed is faster than the speed he can reproduce offspring, so it gets extinct. You then can say the white bunny is the best adapted to the situation, but what did it do more than the black bunny? Nothing, it just had the luck that it had a mutation which made him white.
Sorry to say it, but this is really the biggest load of crap I ever heard in my entire life :| not to mention you placed again humans above nature itself. Humans are part of nature. Yes we have influence on nature, however you completely forget that nature still influences us too. Tell me if you go to the northpole in your bathing suit, is it going to become warm? No, you will have to wear warm cloths otherwise you will freeze to death. The city I live in is build on a swamp, so tall buildings need special fundaments so that they don't sink into the ground. Again humans need to match the surroundings, not vice versa. If humans would actually make nature to adapt to themelves, we wouldn't have so many problems with natural disasters.
Yes you could consider us a "unique" case in nature (whether it's positive or negative) however we still do the exact same thing as any other animal. We have effect on nature, but so do a lot of other things in nature. No, we have influence on nature, but it doesn't adapt to us.
Final stage of evolution WTH Did you know that we are an incredible young specie? That saying that we're a second in a millenium would already be an incredible overestimation of the human specie? Compared to the age of the earth and life we are nothing. What you just said is nearly saying that we became the goal of all evolution in an instant.
Did you also know that the human body actually is one of the most odd constructions in nature? The human body is in fact inredibly inconvenient, one of the most inconvenient species there exist, let alone that we just reached the end of evolution -_-
Nearly that entire statement you wrote, whether it's yours or of a friend, is BS. It's filled with determinism. Something that should be avoided at all costs. That alone makes that statement invalid as there is no such thing as determinism in nature. Two it shows that the person who made it has no perception of time outside his own lifespan.
I don't say that all the things I wrote are the truth and you may not agree, however what you wrote is indeed mostly wrong. We didn't reach the final stage of evolution and we never will, there is no final stage. Nature doesn't adapt to us, we adapt to nature just like any other animal. Yes just like those animals we too influence nature, however we are part of nature and her influence is always more. When a mine is build, the entire area is made so that it would make us benefit the most. But that includes the entire area's structure. It always has to be changed for each mine because the conditions are different. What is the best way for one can be the worst for another. Human presence will affect the area a lot, but even when the mine would be completely depleted of everything it's still nature that effects us as we are the ones that are forced to move because nature doesn't provide anything anymore.
The only thing you said that's partially right is that animals strive to overcome extinction, though again that's just something to make things understandable. Animals try not to die themselves and sometimes their family/group. However none of them is actually bussy with keeping their own specie alive.
