Keenan Lofton- Unsettling of America 1

At the beginning of chapter four in Wendell Berry’s book, The Unsettling of America, he gets into a discussion of how energy and religion are basically one in the same whether you like it or not. At first I was skeptical when I first heard Berry say this. But after reading further into the chapter and listening to his reasoning I came to understand the relation between energy and religion. This first thing Berry says is that religions bind us back to the source of life, and that energy is the only source of life. When analyzing what he says further in that religion can’t be destroyed and neither can energy, it can only be changed. This got me thinking even more and made me wonder if nature and energy are one in the same too? I came to the conclusion that nature and energy are not the same, but energy is required in nature. With out energy, nature cant be sensed or interact with. So energy is an important part of nature.