Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.
Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?