Nature has a way of keeping us humble. It likes to maintain a balance that humans sometimes do not understand given its complexity and cantankerous temperament. Those who ignore or even abuse nature tend to find themselves on the receiving end of pain and incomprehensible misery as this is nature’s way of correcting transgressions and restoring harmony to the world: the greater the crime, the greater the punishment. Karma, according to hippies and Buddhists everywhere, is the main underlying component of our spiritual environment measuring everything we do on a cosmic scale – it functions much like a rubber band when pulled too far in one direction.