Humble Humility

One of my favorite things about the subjects of life is that they all seem to intertwine. I am in a class called the future of food and we are reading a book entitled The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan. While reading this book I cam across a sentence that I found to be really interesting. The sentence said, "When poets liken people to blades of grass, it's usually to humble us, to pull the rug out from under our individuality and remind us of our existential puniness." I know this is more of a nature of human nature topic, but I found it to be a very interesting quote. People aren't aware of how small and powerless we all are. When we compare ourselves to nature, we want to be a fierce animal or a tall mighty tree, but never anything simple like a blade of grass. People want to be a whole forest than just one little tiny thing.  From time to time one may get a person that likens themselves to a humble creature such as an ant or a butterfly, but even those are movable creatures.  No one ever realizes that mankind isn't that great, I mean yea there have been a lot of cool inventions, and great discoveries, but other than that, outside of that what else are we. We are a bundle of cells, tissues and organs all neatly packed together by God to carry out His will. Why can't we just realize the reality and truth of the matter and humble ourselves?