That is a question proto-transhumans should be asking. Self-preservation is the main answer, I think, since we still lack the technological means to completely reshape the natural environment.

I was listening to a Vervaeke discussion on YouTube recently, and he spoke of the need to "fall back in love with being" as a precondition for escaping alienation. This question may be at the root of the one you're asking: Do we find nature loveable or revolting, given our scientific, objectifying, disenchanting knowledge of it?