Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“We must, however, reflect on what is happening. It is an urgent matter, especially for those of us who still live in… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. — Thomas Berry Copy Share
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect. — Thomas Berry Copy Share
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
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