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title: "37 Earth Quotes By Thomas Berry"
description: "37 Earth quotes by Thomas Berry. Plus more from Thomas Berry and more Earth sayings from other authors."
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> [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/)

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> [Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/of-all-the-issues-we-are-concerned-with-at-present-the-most-basic/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-destiny-of-humans-cannot-be-separated-from-the-destiny-of-earth/)

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

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> [Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/scientists-have-suddenly-become-aware-of-the-magic-quality-of-the/)

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

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> [In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-our-totality-we-are-born-of-the-earth-our-spirituality-itself-is/)

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

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> [The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-earth-will-solve-its-problems-and-possibly-our-own-if-we-will-let/)

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

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

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

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> [If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/if-the-earth-does-grow-inhospitable-toward-human-presence-it-is/)

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

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> [All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/all-human-professions-institutions-and-activities-must-be-integral/)

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

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> [We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-cannot-discover-ourselves-without-first-discovering-the-universe/)

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

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> [From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/from-a-large-planet-of-overwhelming-magnitude-unlimited-resources-and/)

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

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> [The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-present-urgency-is-to-begin-thinking-within-the-context-of-the/)

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

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> [The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-time-has-come-to-lower-our-voices-to-cease-imposing-our/)

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

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> [What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/what-is-clear-is-that-the-earth-is-mandating-that-the-human-community/)

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

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> [The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-story-is-the-quintessence-of-reality-we-perceive-the/)

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

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> [What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/what-does-the-earth-desire-i-will-put-it-in-just-a-few-short/)

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

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> [We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-might-sometimes-reflect-and-recall-that-the-purpose-of-all-our/)

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

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> [Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/earth-as-we-know-it-came-into-being-through-its-four-great-components/)

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

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> [We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-have-indeed-been-out-in-space-but-some-are-under-the-illusion-that/)

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

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> [In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-reality-there-is-a-single-integral-community-of-the-earth-that/)

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

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> [We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-come-here-because-we-too-feel-a-responsibility-for-the-human/)

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

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> [Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/yet-we-can-be-sure-that-whatever-fictions-exist-in-wall-street/)

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

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> [Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/even-as-regards-earth-we-are-more-committed-to-history-than-to/)

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

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> [The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-great-work-now-as-we-move-into-a-new-millennium-is-to-carry-out/)

[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…](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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> [The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-the-solar-system-and-planet-earth-in-themselves-and-in/)

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

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> [Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also…](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/)

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> [The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-reduction-of-the-earth-to-an-object-simply-for-human-s-use/)

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

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> [The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-planet-earth-in-its-present-mode-of-florescence-is-being/)

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

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> [So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/so-long-as-we-are-under-the-illusion-that-we-know-best-what-is-good/)

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

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> [Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of…](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/)

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> [The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-human-venture-depends-absolutely-on-this-quality-of-awe-and/)

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

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> [We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-find-ourselves-ethically-destitute-just-when-for-the-first-time-we/)

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

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> [For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/for-the-emergent-process-as-noted-by-the-geneticist-theodore/)

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

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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…](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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> [What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/what-is-happening-now-is-of-a-geological-and-biological-order-of/)

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

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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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