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 will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. — 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 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
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
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then… — 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 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
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political… — 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
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, 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
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
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
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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