Finally, we express all of these emotions and responses through celebration and ritual. The issue of rights does not arise with the universe - at least not at our present technological level. There is nothing we can do to harm or alter anything in the universe except for our own planet. Nor does the universe have any goals that we could respect or disrespect. The ethical call of nature.
Nature is part of the divinity of the universe.
It is an expression of the astonishing power of matter to organize itself into more and more complex forms and associations. Nature too has power, unity, mystery, and beauty. So it awakens in us similar feelings of reverence, belonging, curiosity and love, and their linked responses of acceptance, union, exploration and contemplation. But nature has additional qualities which require other responses. These qualities have to do with our dependence on and interdependence with nature, and with nature's vulnerability.