“Otherness”: Examining the Relationship Between Human and Non-Human Ursula K. Le Guin, in her essay “Deep in Admiration,” reminds us that “[l]ife … is symbiosis ‘all the way down’” (M5) and that “nothing is single in this universe” (M15). All relationships are reciprocal in nature. Human beings do not exist in a vacuum; the way we thoughtlessly consume the surrounding landscape before we even begin to consider what impact we might have on pre-existing ecosystems...