The second chapter of the Book of Genesis contains a creation account describing God as very intimate, very involved in creation. That same kind of closeness characterizes the relationship of humanity with creation. We are told “God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.” Contrast that with the first creation account where the man and woman were told “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Instead of subduing creation, humanity is to “care and cultivate” for it — good advice given our current ecological crisis.