J. Nathan Matias 🦣 on Nostr: Listening to Robinson’s “Reading Genesis” on the story of Noah’s ark. Noah ...
Listening to Robinson’s “Reading Genesis” on the story of Noah’s ark.
Noah saw an ecological disaster in advance & didn’t just save himself, but tried to warn people at great cost, making a plan to preserve biodiversity when humans ignored the risks.
“We create life & we destroy it but we don’t know what it is. If it is the essence of everything, a breath of the very spirit of God… [it] should be properly felt & valued, though this is by no means possible”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/reading-genesis-marilynne-robinson-book-review
Noah saw an ecological disaster in advance & didn’t just save himself, but tried to warn people at great cost, making a plan to preserve biodiversity when humans ignored the risks.
“We create life & we destroy it but we don’t know what it is. If it is the essence of everything, a breath of the very spirit of God… [it] should be properly felt & valued, though this is by no means possible”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/reading-genesis-marilynne-robinson-book-review