Humans are part of nature, even though our technology has allowed us to create comfortable indoor environments for ourselves that fool us into thinking otherwise. When we spend most of our lives indoors, it is easy to forget that we are dependent upon other creatures for survival. These creatures include fish, amphibians, insects, and even microscopic organisms in the soil that grows our food. We often think of ourselves as needing to control nature, to dominate nature, but we are part of nature. We are the part of nature that has the technology to destroy it. And having that power to destroy, because we ourselves are dependent on the natural world, we must take responsibility to protect it.