Read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek . Nature, for Dillard, is brutal and full of meaningless repetition. This is not Wordsworth's view of nature, probably not our own. Because of science we know a lot more about nature than we can see with our eyes. Creation, according to Dillard, stops at nothing.
Evolution is immensely wasteful of life.
Everything is flawed. Everything depends on education, and effective education requires the cooperation of those being educated. Cooperation, in turn, depends on compassionate treatment. It is difficult to discuss AIDS because it is, and ought to be, somewhat difficult to discuss sex. It is hard to put sex under a clinical spotlight and still maintain the reverence for it that makes our own experience as lovers and parents meaningful.