... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis…

Wendell Berry
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... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
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