my place in nature

Last night I was watching one part of the video series Planet Earth with my kids.  We watched a starving wolf kill a caribou baby.  We watched an arctic fox scavenge for goose eggs.  Once the eggs hatched, she took a gosling and fed it to her pups.  We watched a pride of lions and a group of elephants quenching their thirst at an African watering hole.  The two groups watched each other suspiciously.  The elephants are so incredibly huge, the lions are no match for them.  But the lions were hungry, and eyed each elephant.  When a medium-sized lone elephant showed up at the watering hole, not connected to the rest of the elephant group, the lions intuitively attacked and killed it.  Nature seems so brutal, so emotion-less.  And its the real world.  I wonder what the parallels are in my life.  I go food shopping at my upscale health food store and consciously realize my privilege and the fact that being in my marriage feeds my kids. That's an emotion-less veiw of it, but one that holds truth.