All This Talk of Food
In light of all this “food talk”
I thought I’d share this quote by Wendel Berry
We can not live harmlessly or strictly at our own expense; we depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. The point is, when we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament; when we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration…
From his book – The Gift of Good Land
(photos via me)
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