Once, church services were hosted in that cave's final large cavern. The ceiling damaged by carbide lamps is their lasting legacy. There is a fallacy subtly implicit in my writing above. I have set nature and humanity in opposition. Humans are creatures of a day, bringing fire, creating and destroying rapidly.
Nature is harmony and balance and eternity.
But I am seeing nature only in snapshot. Once, all caves were thick and solid ground. Once, these caves were hollow and undecorated, without the white and red stalag formations. Once, the two sets of spiders lived together on one continent. I have no syntax or grammar for the long processes of nature.