So I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
Por isso, virei-me  para os animaizinhos abundantes que cabem entre o polegar e o indicador: as coisinhas que compõem  a base dos nossos ecossistemas, as coisinhas, como gosto de dizer,  que comandam o mundo.