That's actually what my qigong master, who is a devout Buddhist says
I think it's a pretty universal view, no? Well, his specific context was on karma, that we fare much better than trees, animals and demons/ghosts because we are blessed with the conditions that gives us the opportunity to collect good virtues or something, to reincarnate as higher beings.
But also it correlates on the energetic level, I was taught not to go around trying to suck up "new age earth energy", which is the energy of the dead and underworld he says. He might not know the word chthonic, but I think that was what he was trying to say...
If we reverse it I guess he was saying we should be trying to absorb the celestial energies in order to elevate ourselves. Moon energy is Yin, as long as we balance it we should be fine. Mountain and Sea energies we are also trying to take in the vast expanse of space/nature, and again, not the energies within the ground of the mountain, like chthonic fairy mounds, or the deep chthonic underwaters.