EARTH’S CULTIVATION
Speaking of God’s plan for humankind, Dominican priest Benedict Ashley says, “He put Adam and Eve in a garden and said, ‘I prepared a place for you. You are to conserve it, that’s ecology, and cultivate it, which means perfect it. I want you to make it better, not tear it up.'” — Benedict Ashley, Catholic priest and professor of moral theology at St. Louis University in St. Louis Adapted from a report by Virginia Culver in the Denver Post, Saturday, March 1, 1997, page 6b
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