Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe. — 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
Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect. — 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 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
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
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 Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and… — 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
From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored,… — 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 human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives 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
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — 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
In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth,… — 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… — 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
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans… — 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 story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To… — 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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