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Jun 1, 2000 · Part biography, part science report, and part meditation on how the chaos that caused Miller’s existential misery could also bring self-acceptance and a loving wife, this unique book is an ingenious celebration of diversity and the mysterious order that underlies all existence. A quirky wonder of a book. 7.
Cultural criticism delivered with relish and brio. Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Poet, novelist, and ecologist Wendell Berry is the author of more than 30 books including Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community. In this cantankerous volume, he writes: "The dominant story of our age, undoubtedly, is that of adultery and divorce.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world. 176 pages, Paperback.
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Apr 19, 2001 · Life is a Miracle elicits some hysterical reviews on Amazon, as one would expect with books that challenge our most basic assumptions about ourselves and the world. I expect that if it were more widely read, the greater part of our country would be foaming at the mouth over this book. God I wish it were.
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Jun 1, 2000 · LIFE IS A MIRACLE. by Wendell Berry ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 2000. Berry has earned these lofty sentiments about life’s abiding mystery and beauty. He has lived close to the earth, pressed... A strong polemic, in which Berry ( Another Turn of the Crank, 1995, etc.) takes a wrecking ball to E.O. Wilson’s Consilience, reducing its smug ...
Life Is a Miracle takes strong exception to Wilson’s boast concerning the celestial: "We can be proud as a species because, having discovered that we are alone, we owe the gods very little." I cheered along with Berry as he blasted the rivets off that sentence. The scientist’s claim that we know we are alone is as dogmatic as the cleric’s ...
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I think his logic is firm, but I wish he hadn't spent so much time arguing with Mr. Wilson. Indeed, our worship of empirical data, science and technology creates an unnecessary dualism within our culture.
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