"Master, is not the feeding of birds and squirrels, as you do, interference with Nature, therefore, contrary to its highest principle of 'Non-Interference'?"
"Indeed it is. But so is the very cooking of our food. Is not 'to be one with Nature' definitionate with interfering? All life does it. To interfere with Nature is Nature, is manipulation of Reality is the Way. Only, as Man, one could restrict it to mere necessities. No animal, EVER, would start a forest fire, only man does that. And, is there a real danger of keeping alive, a weak or diseased individual that otherwise had been destroyed? On the contrary, some ambitious individual squirrel, might experience a, what it thinks, friendship and security, yet, keeps its eye always open for the boy with the air-gun. Don't you worry, Mei Ling, there always remain plenty of birds and squirrels that never sit on my hand to feed.
Then, Man may tax nature freely for his essential needs, that
is, when he is not overabundant." [29]