Scott Adams says it well:

"I think everyone on earth considers himself a "nature lover" without the slightest feeling of irony. The most curious members of this club are the nature lovers who like to shoot as much of nature as their ammo budget allows. They figure you can love nature just as much when it is riddled with holes. In fact, you can see a lot more of nature once you create peepholes through all the animals . ..." (from "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel", 2002)