The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable:… - Wendell Berry

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The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry (born 5 August 1934) is an American philosopher, poet, essayist, farmer, novelist and social activist.

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Alternative Names: Wendell Erdman Berry

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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

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