Before I was six years old,
 my grandparents and my mother
 had taught me that if all the green things that grow
 were taken from the earth,
 there could be no life.

If all the four-legged creatures
 were taken from the earth,
 there could be no life.

If all the winged creatures
 were taken from the earth,
 there could be no life.

If all our relatives who crawl and swim
 and live within the earth
 were taken away,
 there could be no life.

But if all the human beings
were taken away,
 life on earth would flourish.

That is how insignificant we are.