does man belong to the world or does the world belong to man?

"Right from the beginning, everything that ever lived belonged to the world. That’s how things came to be this way."(pag. 239) this quote basically explains evolution. We have evolved because we have belonged to the world. In present times we never hear this because mother culture has hid it from us, the takers.
The takers believe the world belongs to us and due to this, we have stopped evolving. We are destroying instead of creating. On the other hand, leavers still think we belong to the world, if we follow their steps, we will keep evolving and creation won't stop.
Both takers and leavers have a story. They need something to tell the next generations, and need to believe they come from somewhere. The following is the taker's story:
"The gods made the world for man, but they botched the job, so we had to take matters into our own, more competent hands." (pag. 241)
The leaver's story is this:
the god made man for the world, the same way they made salmon and sparrows and rabbits for the world; this seems to have worked pretty well so far, so we can take it easy and leave the running of the world to the gods" (pag. 241)
we the takers, are always blaming and cursing the gods because we think this is suppose to be our world and they are constantly sending bad things to us. What kind of god would send hurricanes and blizzards to its creation? We decided gods weren't doing a great job and decided to take their place.
On the other hand, leavers understand the world has a process. Tarantula eats praying mantis, praying mantis eats worm, worm eats fruit. In order to be a balance between life and death, we have to go with the flow, be part of the world and not make the world only ours.