Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis — The Art of Being Creatures
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Hebrew Wood Is a Strong Wood, Says, to Have Dominion
The notion of skilled mastery suggests something like a craft and art of being human. The condition for our exercise of skilled mastery is set by the prior blessing of the creat s of sea and sky that they are to be fruitful and multiply. Whatever it means for us to exercise skilled mastery, it cannot undo that prior blessing. I think that's pretty convicting for us in the sixth great age of species extinction....
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