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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.

Wendell Berry
Believe, Ignorance, Weakness
Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.114, Counterpoint Press

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Wendell Berry
Gratitude, Food, Ignorance
Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.152, Counterpoint

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Wendell Berry
Ignorance, Men, Praise
Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

Wendell Berry
Ignorance, Knowledge, Acquisition
Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words: Essays”, p.56, Counterpoint Press

From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.

Wendell Berry
Nature, Ignorance, Animal

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

Wendell Berry
Ignorance, Character, Oil
Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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