Triviality and self importance.

So, I am a daily reader of a multitude of webcomics. This comic is from a popular series called XKCD which I would highly recommend for anyone. I liked this comic because it really highlighted the difference between humanity and the rest of nature. That turtle knows what it is, it knows what it wants, and it doesn't really care about anything beyond itself. While that human is being shown as doing trivial things that in fifty years won't really matter. The turtle as nature shows that in reality, what humanity can accomplish is all just trivial in it's eyes since it cannot judge. Nature is not sentient, it just is. It is uncaring, nonconscious and always changing. The human is performing an action that for a few moments was incredibly important to him then ended. Unlike nature, humanity cares. It cares about it's own problems, trivial and grand. It cares about the future and what is happening. In this I think there is a conflict in humanity because of this. Humanity doesn't like the idea that they are acting without the benefit of having anything on the cosmic scale react and therefore they prefer to personigy nature.

Going along with this, I think that this can explain why humanity can turn to religion. Religion, especially Western religion, preaches of all powerful benevolent beings that care about every person. This gives nature a caring face that is actually very interested in the wellbeing of humanity. This is truly what religion does for a lot of people. It allows people to believe that there is something greater than them.
You know, I just realized I have inferred a lot from a comic that only depicts a turtle. I wonder If I overanalysed this.

Q: Why do humans feel the need to always have recognition from something superior? Be it god, a boss, or simply one's role model or hero?