The Pitiful Mind of Man

The Leopold and Loeb story is such a great one because it so elegantly summarizes the severe limitations of symbolic reasoning and thinking. The symbol using/math model creating mind is severely stunted and deformed. On it's own, it's a stupid childish monster.

Is it possible to simply reverse the roles of the symbol using mind and its relationship with the external world and nature? Where the oafish symbol using mind attempts to impose simplistic plans and order on the natural world, can it instead follow hints from nature?

The symbol using mind conflates its plans and models with "reality"--a very common outcome of this approach is abject failure and sometimes monstrous destruction as the symbol mind tries to obliterate all that is counter to its feeble schemes. Can language and symbolic representations flow from the complexity of nature instead of the mind of a man?