Criteria for a Healthy Landscape

I found it interesting that Paul Groth tied in man's necessity to be part of nature as being a healthy landscape because it seems to be an innately human trait to try to distance one's self away from and justify being superior to nature and natural forces rather than to consider one's self as a part of nature. Though times are changing it would appear that people still have a superiority complex when it comes to being part of a natural phenomenon. So I suppose people can be "nifty", however in general they are very short sighted and don't view themselves as part of their own landscape, and instead view themselves as controllers or manipulators of the landscape around them.