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 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
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
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't… — 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
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — 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
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. — Thomas Berry Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect. — Thomas Berry Copy Share
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
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… — Thomas Berry Copy Share
