If you were born after the Victorian science/religion schism that bedeviled Western thought, worship, and jurisprudence well into the twentieth century, and your way of seeing the natural world has a “survival of the fittest” hue to it, then it will probably happen that every time you are in the bush you will feel a little bit at risk, as if the bush is somehow hankering after your blood, as if the only way you will survive that kind of exposure is to exert your muscle power and your connivance over the rocks, trees, insects, and animals you might come across. You’ll feel unfit, in other
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