In my hut this spring
There is nothing
There is everything!

An absence of perspective can be devastating in its consequences. It can, for example, lead to a situation in which the dominant species of a planet - the only one known to be inhabited - located in a remote backwater of the universe, can indulge in its darkest, most reckless and destructive impulses, plunging the world into chaos and threatening the very survival of its only home and the continued existence of every life form that has the misfortune to share the same sky and breath the same air.