The few, the elite, the arrogant and the anointed are not content to be stewards and statesmen. Instead they are divinely inspired engineers whose holy mission is nothing less than to change the minds of man and perfect his social institutions to the standards they alone carry from on high. Man, in their scheme, merits only endless meddling and endless reproach. Sadly, the legacy of these anointed is more despairing than anything man has done to the rainforest. Man is evolution's greatest achievement so far.
Man is the rainforest brought to self-consciousness.
We alone have the unlimited power to contemplate the fact and the destiny of this achievement. As such, we are deserving of every homage we accord the rainforest. We ARE the rainforest. The knowledge we lack to make the rainforest better we surely do not remotely possess for the perfection of mankind. Nor the prerogative.