We have inhabited space, the bottom of the ocean, and the coldest biomes of this planet. Most diseases have a cure and those that don't are being thoroughly researched. Our life expectancies are about thirty to fourty years longer than as little as one hundred years ago and prospects of more than that are very near. So it is little wonder that humans view themselves as being seperate from Mother Nature. Yet everything we have accomplished would never have been possible without her resourses.
Humans are still a species, one that is just as dependent on the land as any of the others.
Unfortunately, our actions are not only hurting the land and the organisms we share it with, but they are hurting us as well. I see the desperate need for oil in this country, yet oil is a non-renewable resourse, and one that is very quickly drying up. So we drill for oil ANWR, fine. But it won't last. As a country, we need to demand of our government a search for alternate energy sources.