Man has a profound effect on the land, in many ways, and has done so for about 10k years with the advent Agriculture. This in itself has a marked influence on land through several mediums, land clearing, leading to deforestation on a global scale.
The word pride is used in this case an antonym for shame. Pride in this sense is an affirmation of one's self and the community as a whole. The modern gay pride movement began after the Stonewall riots of the late 1960s.
One definition of pride in the former sense comes from St. Augustine: the love of one's own excellence. A similar definition comes from Meher Baba: Pride is the specific feeling through which egoism manifests. Pride is sometimes viewed as corrupt or as a vice, sometimes as proper or as a virtue.