We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special… — 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
As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being 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
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
The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time...… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — 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
