Thomas Berry Quotes

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• The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history…
• We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is…
• The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all…
• Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
• Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living…
• 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…
• In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is…
• We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power…
• The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
• The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
• The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that…
• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken…
• The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the…
• 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, in a time-developmental…
• All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing…
• Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.
• It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe…
• Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call…
• Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.
• The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments…

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