It is a heartening thing that human beings are striving to come closer to nature. If we carefully examine, we would find that the abovementioned human approach is not on account of love with nature rather does it enhance self-aggrandizement. The said attitude takes the form of pity instead of sympathy. Pity lacks reciprocity. It is one way traffic not a reversible action.
Pity is more like bestowing boon upon an intended object than reciprocity with a living being.
We may have pity on someone but it would sound absurd to hope that he should also have pity on me in return. Moreover, if we further analyse, we observe that the said sympathetic attitude towards nature is, in fact, a pseudo-sympathy and not a real sympathy arising from our own beings. Big efforts to preserve and protect wild-life, forests, pastures and finite natural resources appear to be replete with the aims and objectives to simply store them so that we along with our future generation may utilize and exploit them. The basic idea here, is that it is we who are capable of granting lives to wild-life and showering mercy upon the nature. Animals are hapless recipients of our desired mercy or deserve relentless slaughter if they cease to be profitable in near future.