“For a long time now we have understood ourselves as traveling to some sort of industrial paradise, some new Eden conceived and constructed entirely by human ingenuity.
And we have thought ourselves free to use and abuse nature in any way that might further this enterprise.
Now we have overwhelming evidence that we are not smart enough to recover Eden by assault, and that nature does not tolerate or excuse our abuses.
If, in spite of the evidence against us, we are finding it hard to relinquish our old ambition, we are also seeing more clearly every day how that ambition has reduced and enslaved us.”
- Wendell Berry “Nature as Measure” in Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
And we have thought ourselves free to use and abuse nature in any way that might further this enterprise.
Now we have overwhelming evidence that we are not smart enough to recover Eden by assault, and that nature does not tolerate or excuse our abuses.
If, in spite of the evidence against us, we are finding it hard to relinquish our old ambition, we are also seeing more clearly every day how that ambition has reduced and enslaved us.”
- Wendell Berry “Nature as Measure” in Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
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