Gary Larson's "There's a Hair in My Dirt!" (spoiler alert)

After The Far Side, Gary Larson wrote There’s a Hair in My Dirt! During dinner, the son in a worm family complains about hair in his food prompting his dad to tell the story of a girl who loves nature but doesn’t understand that plants produce air and compete against each other for pollinators. That bird songs are “insults, warnings, and come-ons”; that tortoises can drown, that toads have skin toxins, that salmon find their way home by smell, that dead trees are valuable as are small fires at the right time. On her way home she finds a snake killing a mouse. She killed the harmless snake and released the cute mouse but caught a virus from the mouse and died – becoming the “Harriet” in the young worm’s dirt!

My build contains trees, flowers, insects, birds, a small forest fire, a standing dead tree that can fall to the forest floor, fish navigating a rocky stream (with an approaching bear carrying a jar of tartar sauce), a tortoise and, of course, a snake, rodent, skull and bones.