Aug 15
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The Promised Burning | Wendell Berry

I was reading Berry’s A Timbered Choir, when I came across verse that juxtaposes apocalyptic imagery from scripture with our abuse of the environment. It gave me chills.
Nowhere is there an end except in smoke.
This is the world that we have set on fire.
This is the promised burning, darkening
our light of hope and putting out [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley