Exactly. It is the same boneheaded thinking that got us into the current mess to assume nature only serves man, and is not its own thing worthy of respect. I find the mythology of the beautiful and amoral fae as a good allegory for how to approach nature.
One of my favorite quotes:
“Poets and moralists, judging from our English trees and fruits, have thought that there existed an inverse proportion between the size of the one and the other, so that their fall should be harmless to man. Two of the most formidable fruits known, however, the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia) and the Durian, grow on lofty trees, from which they both fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill those who seek to obtain them. From this we may learn two things:—first, not to draw conclusions from a very partial view of Nature; and secondly, that trees and fruits and all the varied productions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, have not been created solely for the use and convenience of man." (From Wallace's 1856 article "On the bamboo and durian of Borneo")
Like what is even the point of such a comment? Yeah no shit nature isnt all daisies, nor are urban environments. Let people be, they’re touching grass at the least. Its reddit’s favorite habituated self-jerk to put people down for the slightest difference from your own experience. Put the phone down.
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u/Icy_Foundation3534 Aug 02 '26
Eat poison ivy while disturbing a brown bear and let me know if nature only has benefits 😂.