FLOW
There is not now, and never was, a “Balance of Nature.”
The Universe is a Flow.
Entire stars are born and die every day. The second law of thermodynamics states that everything is progressing to more disorder. Uncounted bazillions of neutrinos are sleeting through your body as you are reading this. The northern continents are still rebounding from the melting of the ice sheets from 18,000 years ago. Meteorites and shooting stars add about 40 tons of material to the Earth every day. Volcanoes and Earthquakes change the shape of continents, the oceans erode headlands and deposit beaches, and rivers carry sediment to the sea.
We live in a dynamic universe. We do not so much exist in a static state of 'being.'
More properly, we PADDLE - the flow of the universe.