Quotable Creation Care: Joseph Sittler Thinks We Need Roots To Grow

This brutalizing rootlessness of the life of an increasing number of our citizenry produces a creeping symbolic starvation; the very matrix of small meaningfulness in life which can become the womb of profounder and vaster structures of meaning is rendered anemic, becomes sour and brittle.

Joseph Sittler. “A Theology for Earth” from Evocations of Grace.