... Heaven and earth, human life and the life of animals and vegetation, are all interrelated. This is the conviction in the book of Hosea: Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish; together with the wild animals and the birds of the air even the fish of the sea are perishing. (Hosea 4:2–3) It may also be implied in Psalm 82, where moral disorder (caused by the unruly gods, apparently) leads to cosmic disturbance ... And it is still to be found in 1 Enoch: [After the ‘angel marriages’] the giants turned against (the people) in order to eat them. And they began to sin against birds, wild beasts, reptiles, and fish. And their flesh was devoured the one by the other, and they drank blood. And then the earth brought an accusation against the oppressors. (1 Enoch 1:7) Good human behaviour is in keeping with the natural order, not in a metaphorical sense, but in the sense that it actually integrates human beings into the created world and helps the world to run smoothly and in the interests of its human inhabitants ...