Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid econo…

Wendell Berry
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Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them. ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.308, Counterpoint
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