-The nicest, hardest trees are the first ones to be cut down.
-Appeal doesn’t always equate to destruction, but it often does.
-Uselessness is a form of perfection.
This isn’t always true but I think it is a important thing to realize.
The gods would use us for food if we were worth it.
But humans aren’t especially more meaty than cows, for example.
Gods don’t eat cows - people do.
People cut down the trees, as well.
In fact, appeal and utility and value are entirely from a human perspective.
In nature, nothing is useless. Every living thing, from the tiniest microbe to the biggest, bluest whale, fits into a web or interdependency that is damaged by the removal of any component, to the detriment of all constituents.