"Consider, Linnam, that fowl over there. He (that one's a cock, as you can tell by the large tail and colorful neck) has a place and a purpose. He has only a few goals in life: to eat when hungry, to sleep when tired, second to survive, and first, to couple and have children. What does he eat? Bugs, mostly, for which I thank him, because if he didn't, they'd be crawling all over us. What eats him? Us, when we have a mind and for which I thank him again, and foxes, and wolves. So just seeing this fine fellow, we also know a pack of wolves isn't likely to be nearby, or else they'd have gotten him by now -- wolves would never pass up such a fine meal.

"He is a part of nature, and his very presence tells us about the flow of nature around us. Consider, now, the orc: where does he fit in? What are his goals in life?

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