"After the queen described the brutality of man... Marius says 'Look out there at the forest! Pick one tree; describe it, if you will, in terms of what it destroys, what it defies, and what it does not accomplish, and you have a monster of greedy roots and irresistible momentum that eats the light of other plants, their nutrients, their air. But that is not the truth of the tree. That is not the whole truth when the thing is seen as part of nature...'" - The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice