Yeah. First rule in nature-related professions is generally to not touch. Careless touching can get the animal to be outcast or you to spread a sickness. And in the end, it's only to satisfy human kind instinct or morals anyway.
But "touching" was meant metaphorically. Our understanding of the larger picture in nature is only starting to surface. And general consciousness is still far behind the influence we have on the world as a species.
We have already created a garden world in europe (because it's the old continent) and have done a lot of damage in the process, the last few millennia, including "good practice" of managing woods creating only problems.
In short: do not touch nature, unless you know exactly what you do. And we especially don't need to "manage" it.