It amazes me how sometimes, people can be so shortsighted as to take the
words of someone for their literal value instead of for the intended
meaning gleaned by reading in context and with more than an ounce of
intelligence.

Eshu's example of 'covering the land with civilization' is a
hypothetical impossibility, an imagery to prove a point. But, if you
must speak on a literal standpoint, let us discuss this a little
further.

Assuming it were possible, through blood, sweat, and tears to cover
every inch of the land - and perhaps the oceans, as well - it would
likely take a tremendous amount of time, would it not? Nature has its
way of destroying things over time, through rain and wind and snow and
heat, stone cracks, sand covers, and yes, trees do grow through stone.
All it takes is a seed in the tiniest of cracks to crumble the hardest
marble.

Now, while the great evil, the 'people' are working hard to squish out
the life-giving nature around them, nature is following in their
footsteps perhaps a few hundred years behind, undoing it on Her own.

Extinction is inevitable for all life, to be replaced by bigger and
better. Some day, foxes will be things of myth and legend, and a
creature beyond our little imaginations will be commonplace. If one
could instantaneously cover the world in stone, everything would die.
Yet, it would be a gradual process, as stone became more and more
prominent, you would see changes in many of the animals and plantlife to
adapt. You may ask in what ways? I could make guesses for the next
hundred years, and still no definitive answer could be found without
experimentation on a global scale.

I believe I have been 'literal' for long enough. Surely most must see
that discussion of this sort would be pointless, pointing out the
various strengths and weaknesses that would be present on the circular
timeline of evolution. At times civilization will dominate, and at
times, nature will. Man could not completely wipe out nature, because
the ecological effects would force man to begin to dwindle in number
until it was no longer a threat until such a time as Nature could right
herself, with or without your 'help'.

As Eshu was trying to say, your efforts are to slow down eventualities,
not to stop them completely. For whatever reason, it is for your own
personal gains, out of selfishness disguised as selflessness. Whether
the goal is a few extra hundred years of profit for you, your children,
and your children's children, or for the power of wielding the raw force
of Nature to feel the exhilliaration of extering your will upon the
heads of your subjugates.

Your cause is admirable. Everyone's cause is admirable, when viewed in
the correct light. But ends do not justify the means... especially when
both the ends and the means turn out to be horribly, horribly misguided.
"Shoot first, ask questions later because it is Nature first, People
second." If Nature were as unforgiving as that, not a single one of us
"persons" would be here to argue about it.

- Myslani Lamia

Penned by my hand on the 8th of Khepary, in the year 96 MA.