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 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
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
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
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
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — 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 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
Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is… — 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 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