"We and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. We will discover that for these reasons our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrible blasphemy."
"We are holy creatures living among other holy creatures in a world that is holy. Why is it apparently unknown to millions of professed students of the Bible? How can modern Christianity have so solemnly folded its hands while so much of the work of God was and is being destroyed?"
"Obviously, 'the sense of the holiness of life' is not compatible with an exploitive economy. You cannot know that life is holy if you are content to live from economic practices that daily destroy life and diminish its possibility."
The industrial economy is "an economy firmly founded on the seven deadly sins and the breaking of all ten of the Ten Commandments."
"Everything that lives is holy" -- William Blake
"Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden being." -- Philip Sherrard, Greek Orthodox theologian
"It takes a lot of nerve to destroy this wond'rous earth." -- Bowerbirds
"To Dante, 'despising Nature and her goodness' was a violence against God." --Wendell Berry
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork." --Psalm 19
Wendell Berry, "Christianity and the Survival of Creation"
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