Thomas Berry

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

— Thomas Berry

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster…

— Thomas Berry

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…

— Thomas Berry

To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of…

— Thomas Berry

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to…

— Thomas Berry

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced…

— Thomas Berry

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

— Thomas Berry

Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of…

— Thomas Berry

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign…

— 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...…

— Thomas Berry

The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular…

— Thomas Berry

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to…

— Thomas Berry

Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

— Thomas Berry

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also…

— Thomas Berry

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests…

— Thomas Berry

The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow…

— Thomas Berry

The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and…

— Thomas Berry

As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process…

— Thomas Berry

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.

— Thomas Berry

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…

— Thomas Berry

We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has…

— Thomas Berry

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…

— Thomas Berry

The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs…

— Thomas Berry

We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…

— Thomas Berry

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…

— Thomas Berry