Event Horizon
The boundaries of causation
always exceed
the boundaries of consideration.
–Wes Jackson
Mystery, the unknown, our ignorance
always will be with us, to be dealt with.
The farther we extend the radius of knowledge,
the larger becomes
the circumference of mystery.
There is, a boundary
that may move somewhat,
but can never be removed,
between what we know
and what we don’t,
between our human minds
and the mind of Nature or the mind of God.
To ignore or defy that division, wishing to be as gods, believing the human mind is so capacious as to contain the whole universe and its whole truth, is characteristic of a kind of science that is at once romantic and industrial, ever in search of new worlds to conquer. From its work, I fear, we can expect only a continuing spillover of violence, to the world and to ourselves.
—Wendell Berry
A Small Porch, pub. 2016 Counter Point Press
