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Animals also tend to establish an equilibrium with their environment and give something back to it. We don't. We just ravage and plunder an area of it's resources then pack up and move on. We're a virus with culture as our operating system at that base biosphere level.

If you're talking about the one thing that separates us from animals when it comes to nature it's obviously industry.

I love spiders. I used to be afraid of them but I got more and more exposed to them and now I find them really, really cool. They're one of evolutions greatest success stories. I was reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami the other other and he was comparing an assassin character in the book to a spider.

A spider is programmed biologically to just stay still for ages in it's web and kill whatever gets trapped in it's vicinity. They don't chose to kill. They don't have a sense of time passing so they don't gauge patience to kill. They just ... sit and wait and kill.

Thought it was kinda neat.