Quotable Creation Care: Sacrament and Desecration from Wendell Berry

August 31, 2010

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Farmer plowing a field.

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.

- Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land

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