Not long ago, the English writer Robert Macfarlane, a true authority on nature non-fiction, published a book titled Underland (Angle), in which he proposed the possibility, studied by him and by other writers and environmental activists, of treating the elements of nature as living beings and, therefore, opening an infinite field of new questions and possibilities: what should this treatment be like? Do they have rights and duties? Can we protect them with laws, as we do with vulnerable groups? They certainly have a birth, and a death, and they have been on Earth for several millennia, long before us as a species.