All Thomas Berry Quotes
- Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. Children
- We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. All
- Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy… Charity
- We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars… Bird
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… Alienated
- Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the… Beginning
- Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the… All
- The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components. All
- The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the… Alienation
- We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… Biodiversity
- The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a… Awakens
- If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… All
- 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… Alienation
- As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we… Akin
- The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. Collection
- It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.… Account
- Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities… Activities
- Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as… Context
- If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its… Courtesy
- Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is… Committed