Nate Thiel - Making Nature Sacred 2

"A religious sense of the world lies at the heart of Berry's ecological conviction that land must be treated as a divine gift and sacrament. To approach the earth as a sacrament is to embrace its materiality while reverencing its worth beyond the horizon of visible use. It is to regard land as a provisional endowment rather than a permanent possession, as a natural and social commonwealth rather than a private estate." -- page 202

This passage completely confirms my previous blog on how Making Nature Sacred is not Gatta’s own work, and should therefore not get credit for it. All Gatta talks about throughout the book is what the authors of other books think, and if he agrees with them. Half of the time Gatta does agree with the others because he probably does not know what the hell he is talking about in the first place. People should not “write” books, or anything for that matter if they do not know anything about it. I put the quotation marks around write because Gatta probably did not write anything, I am willing to bet that he simply copy/pasted everything into a Word document.