...I still think that's the tragic flaw of mankind... is intelligence.

Having intelligence and recognizing it made us think we're better than
all the other creatures on earth, and that we should just use earth
for our needs and grow our race exponentially and have everything
services us... me me me, not too wise an approach towards existence.
The native american indians, believed in that we're just a part of
mother earth and the animals and trees and the spirts are all a part
of an equilibrium... but they get blanks with chicken pocks and wiped
out and their land taken... well, "colonized".

The people of Africa lived simple lives too, they took what they
needed from around them and lived among nature, but they got
enslaved...

And now we have a world like this, full of money and power and a
middle class suffering from depression... all the things we invented
to make life easier for lazy people are now eating up all the planets
resources, and what do we do about it? We try to invent faster
computers and better cars and bigger screen TVs so that we could
distract ourselves with more things and have less time to think about
what's actually going on... to realize that we have made a mistake and
thought ourselves to be too smart for our own good...

trees live, trees die, animals live, animals die, people live, people
die... but people endure a life fearing death and thinking about how
important they are.

Ultimately, everything comes and goes in the circle of life, I believe
wisdom is that which allows us to understand and accept the greatness
of this cosmic cycle... something which animals and plants on this
planet have already obtained without intellect.

I find great peace to be a part, though infinitely small and
insignificant one, of this omnipotent force.