They have personality. Most creatures do. You can scare a spider, you can hurt almost any living thing and most of them feel pain. They know pleasure, or at least absence of pain. It's not us versus nature.
Earle calls for reason.
In the rush to build houses for people or new shopping centers, or cultivate new farmlands, or our search for lumber, we destroy ancient systems that we don't know how to recreate. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't use wood, but we should cultivate the wood that we need and not make further inroads in these places that represent thousands, sometimes millions, of years of growth. Things can be done on an individual basis such as planting one tree and thinking about what we put in the air. And be sure to plant a native tree, one that doesn't require excess water to keep it alive in a place that's not natural. Change the way we think of our yards.