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> [In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-relation-to-the-earth-we-have-been-autistic-for-centuries-only-now/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

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> [Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-difficulty-is-that-we-have-become-autistic-we-no-longer-listen-to/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

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## Other authors on Autistic

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## More by Thomas Berry

> [Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/teaching-children-about-the-natural-world-should-be-seen-as-one-of/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/all-human-activities-professions-programs-and-institutions-must/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-must-be-experienced-as-the-great-self-each-is-fulfilled/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/to-attain-peace-among-the-nations-in-any-dynamic-or-enduring-form/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-divine-communicates-to-us-primarily-through-the-language-of-the/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [ During this period (of technological confinement / \[and language\]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/during-this-period-of-technological-confinement-and-language-the/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/as-humans-we-are-born-of-the-earth-nourished-by-the-earth-healed-by/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-present-urgency-is-to-recover-a-sense-of-the-primacy-of-the/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/there-is-an-ultimate-wildness-in-all-this-for-the-universe-as/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-is-a-unity-an-interacting-and-genetically-related/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-future-rests-in-the-religious-political-economic-and-cultural/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-see-quite-clearly-that-what-happens-to-the-nonhuman-happens-to-the/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/because-of-this-erotic-bond-the-earth-becomes-luxuriant-in-its-every/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-fulfillment-is-not-in-our-isolated-human-grandeur-but-in-our/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-can-break-the-mountains-apart-we-can-drain-the-rivers-and-flood/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

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