The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Today we sell away the last vestiges of our divine endowment: our health, the biosphere and genome, even our own minds.

This gluttonous enterprise of ugliness, waste, and fraud thrives in the disastrous breach it has helped to make between our bodies and our souls.

he’s left in the insanity of denying the bedrock of human existence. Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.