The Danger of thinking you are above creation
There appears to be a law then when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation, they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out from them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.
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Berry, W. (2018). The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. Penguin.