“Every living thing on this planet, including human beings, are products of nature, squirrel,” he said. “Humans may believe that we are in charge, but we shouldn’t be, because we can’t be trusted with that power. We need to acknowledge the things that are still wild, the things that have survived us. We need to remember that this”—he gestured at the trees around us, the falling snow, the vanished deer—“is what we are supposed to be part of. Instead, we’ve manufactured these precarious societies, ruining the earth with our so-called technological advances. Our guns and our biological weapons,
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