Thinking like a mountain

THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN: To what extent would Leopold say humans are separate from nature?
According to the passage,” think like a mountain” Leopold would agree that humans are separate from nature because nature has a way creating balance. The mountains are the only creatures that live long enough to fully understand the owling of the wolves and the footsteps of the deer. Nature including the mountain, work in harmony to preserve lives of all forms, the wolves keeps the deer in check by killing some; the deer keep the forest in check by eating some of the plants and leaves. The absence of wolves to keep the deer in check means that the population of deer will get too large. The large population of deer means that the forest would have to provide food for these deer, hence, a natural deforestation occurs and the mountain it self is about to become extinct. The only problem is, man is the one that made the mountains wolf-less. If man was not separate from nature, then his natural instinct would urge him to let some of the wolves’ lives.
In the cycle of nature, the predator always the next level above the prey, the wolves don’t kill the deer because the wolf wants more grass. Instead, the wolf kills the deer because he wants what the deer can provide. Man, on the other hand, kills the wolves because he wants more deer. If man was not separate from nature, he would kill the wolves for food and not for killing deer