I am of the belief that if one looks at inanimate objects from the aspect of at one time you were a rock or you were that flower or that tree you would treat them with much more care.
I am of the beleif that as souls who are here to experience many things we surely at one time as a soul chose to experrience being immobile and hard as a rock or chose to expereince flowing in the breeze etc.
if you sit and look at nature and with every thing you visually see you say ...." I am that ' or " I am the same as that"..... you will treat everything better
The more kindness we give; the more it increases.~ Amma