Every step removed from the "hunter-gatherer" life style is a step further toward asking something of the rest of the natural world that it does not do easily, or without protest. Agriculture can be practiced in a manner that works with the larger systems of nature, instead of against it, but it is still largely not in balance with the other life forms on the planet. Agriculture is, in a way, the great gift, that allows us to live these very distinctly human lives. It gives us power to be mobile and at the top of the food chain. It has been oft said that with power comes responsibility.

Logic would show us that there is no real separation of man from the natural world. We are a part of the natural world. Every one of us is invested in ecology, environmentalism, preserving nature. Preserving nature is in fact preserving ourselves.