A lot of people are basically uneducated about nature. What they think they know they get from Disney movies (really) and bad nature specials on TV.
I am a docent at an aquarium and we have touch pools. The number of people who think anemones give electrical shocks (Thanks to Nemo) is absurd.
And far too many people are brought up to believe someone else will protect them and that if they get hurt, even through their own actions, someone will make it up to them via a lawsuit.
Much of nature wants to kill and eat you or regards you as a threat to be killed, It does not want to join hands with you and sing songs about how “All Nature Is One”.
