We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world… — 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 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
Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with… — 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
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 need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all… — 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
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