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[Princess Mononoke] Why did Lady Eboshi change her attitude so quickly at the end of the story, seeming to want to co-exist harmoniously with nature?

At the end of the film, following the death of the Deer God and the renewal of natural life in the area around the ironworks, Lady Eboshi (the ironworks master) promises, "We'll start again. We'll build a good village." Before that, she had been single-mindedly, even enthusiastically trying to clear-cut the surrounding forest and kill its guardians, including the Deer God and San (Princess Mononoke, who remains alive at the end). Why did she change her tune so quickly?

Lady Eboshi was a complex character, to be sure. She helped sex workers, hoped to cure lepers, and generally treated people with kindness and good humor. But she was unabashedly anti-forest, and I don't understand what she experienced following the Deer God's death (basically its huge and terrifying spirit killing half the land and then bringing it back to life as it searched for its head and finally died) which led to this 180-degree change of heart in her.

To be fair, I'm not very informed about Japanese mythology and don't fully grasp the political subplot of this movie, so these might have something to do with it. Or maybe I'm even misinterpreting Lady Eboshi's remark at the end, and she was simply promising to keep doing exactly what she'd been doing before from the ashes of the ironworks...
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Lady Eboshi wasn't really anti forest, she was indifferent to the forest except as a resource to be exploited.  Her goal was always to protect her people and make as good a life for them as she could.  If that meant chopping down the forest and making iron then that's what she'd do.  After the Deer God and battling with the Samurai she realized that the best path to peace and prosperity for her people wasn't selling iron to the Emperor, he was a violent man who exploited Iron Town and just saw it as a resource like she saw the forest.  She wanted to find a new path and trying to live as one with the forest at this point of rebirth seems like a good idea to her.