He shows them the punishments he might give if they don t stop their expansion. With the increasing power of Nature, our rewards and punishments have grown more effective yet less so at the same time. This usually just confuses the humans, you see, us both making opposite images, and people who are more perceptive than the norm usually won t be affected at all. We have several connections with the world of Nature that haven t been severed by our life as humans. We can hear the thoughts of almost any living thing near us and can speak to them in the same way.
Plants have insights into the world that animals are incapable of knowing.
A plant can recognize the touch of a person who wants to do us harm and will tell us where they are instantly. I say, again, that we can speak to almost all living things. There are plants that have never been able to learn to speak at all, grown in isolation by the humans. We pity those plants. Standard But animals have methods of perception that plants can never attain.