Our current system is inherently opposed to developing a relationship with the land because it depends on evidence in terms of monetary value. “One of the fundamental weaknesses of a conservationist system based entirely on economic motivations is that most members of the terrestrial community have no economic value” (246). How much is a wildflower or songbird worth? As a result, this infinitely complex ecological system, which depends on an unpredictable number of community formation mechanisms, tends to become increasingly diseased. “It tends to ignore, and thus ultimately eliminate, many elements of the land community which lack commercial values, but which are (as we know) essential to its proper functioning” (252). “Harmony with the earth is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and cut off his left. In other words, you can't love game and hate predators..”