In this we are made free to accept creation for creation's sake, and not for the sake of our own self-serving values, but free to trust in God, free to thank God, free to love God, and above all, freeto serve God. Oh Lord and these Thy gifts 'which we are receiving constantly' through Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord, Amen. To displace the natural is to minimize the sacred, thus our dependence on God. Purity and simplicity are companions to the sacred, which offer a means of expressing thanks to God and respect for His creation. To capture the essence of purity is to capture the essence of God.
Simplicity allows that choice to be made.
It is to read every label, to emphasize the organic over the synthetic, the native over the hybridized and genetically engineered, and the recycled over the consummation of life. If we were to visit St. Francis Basilica and deface a fresco, the world would quickly know, and we'd be chastised. However, for the corporate culture to purge endangered species, develop biological polluting genetic mutants, bio-load toxic metals, acid, dioxin, and other persistent chlorinated compounds and hormone disrupters into our environment, spread toxic sewage sludge and pesticides over pure and fertile ground, incinerate waste without regard to the chemical complexities of the waste stream or resultant emissions, cause untold animal suffering, etc., etc., we are told is the price for progress. This violence reflects an ever growing separation between ourselves and the divine. If we were to visit a busy street corner in any major city at rush hour it would appear chaotic.