The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in 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
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 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 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
The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species. — 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
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
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
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — 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
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
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
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
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence… — 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
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — 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
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
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
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
“We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman happens to the human. What happens to the outer world happens 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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