Despite the immense power and violence that we have deployed against her, nature is handing us one defeat after another. Even in our most grievous offenses against her as in the present epidemic of habitat destruction and species extinction we are being defeated, for in the long run we can less afford the losses than nature can. Wendell Berry, Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, loc. 1874. Kindle Edition Tags: gardening,quote,writing