We could spend all day reciting what Mr. Wendell Barry has to share. It is all truly amazing, eye opening and awakening. Knowledge is a treat and to share it is crucial.
So Check his Book. Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. By Wendell Berry
Many of us live to protect the environment. Big Up for doing this, but here is a little opener of what we are really loving and living with.
The word environment is defined as, the external conditions or surroundings, esp those in which people live or work. This really means a world seperate from ourselves, outside us. The real state of things, of course , is far more complext and intimate and interesting than that. It truly is the world that environs us, that is around us, and also within us. We are made of it, we eat, drink, and breathe it. It is bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.
A creation mystery. This world this creation belongs in a limitied sense to us, for we may rightfully requre certain things of it – the things necessary to keep us fully alive as the kind of creature we are – but we belong to it, and it makes certain rightful claims on us : that we care properly care for it, the we leave it undiminished not just to our children but to all the creatures that will live in it after us.
None of this is converyed by the word environment.
Remeber what gives us life everday. The World that environs us! Enjoy and Respect!
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Heaps of Knowledge passed on from SEX, ECONOMY, FREEDOM & COMMUNTIY by WENDELL BARRY .Thank You!
Nice post. I completely agree with you on that. Respect and be thankful for the world we live in.
Have a good one!