Chapter One is titled, "Heaven and Earth in Jest." Why do you think this was the title chosen for this first chapter?

When watching the scene of the frog being eaten alive, Dillard philosophizes about the nature of God and the universe. The horror of an animal that devours its prey while its still alive causes Dillard to wonder if the beetle was created in jest. If the bug were not made in sport, was it made in earnest? Yet, if one depicts a universe that encompasses such cruelty, how does one include the grace and beauty of that same world?