Many species have been lost.
We lost the species while hunting for something else.
Some species have been missing so long we have forgotten their names.
Our hunt for things will always end in more loss.
The hunt for something else won’t pay off as much as lost species used to pay.
Finding the lost species requires retracing our paths.
The path backwards is not where we want to go.
The reason we don’t want to take the path backwards is because it is overgrown with grief.
If we retrace the path anyway, we won’t find the lost species.
At the end of the path backwards we will find future lost species.
If we find future lost species, what we find will pay off better for us than the things we hunt.