Reducing life to the scope of our understanding (Berry)
February 17th, 2007 | Published in Nature, Ecology, Economics, Quotes, Culture
For quite a while it has been possible for a free and thoughtful person to see that to treat life as mechanical or predictable or understandable is to reduce it. Now, almost suddenly, it is becoming clear that to reduce life to the scope of our understanding (whatever “model” we use) is enviably to enslave it, make property of it, and put it up for sale.
–Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000), 7