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title: "2 Story Universe Quotes By Thomas Berry"
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> [Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/both-education-and-religion-need-to-ground-themselves-within-the/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bad/thomas-berry-7391_alienation_both-education-and-religion-need-to-grou_1256695.jpg)

> [The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in…](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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## 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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