All Thomas Berry Quotes
- What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in… Admired
- As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. Born
- The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species. All
- For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is… Beauty
- There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all… All
- We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there… All
- The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and… All
- All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human… Activities
- Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance! Adopt
- The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. Diversity
- From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources,… Earth
- There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.… Account
- Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. Active
- We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been… Air
- If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such… Dance
- We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us. Achieved
- Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of… Ability
- The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. Communicate
- We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world. Clearly
- We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality… Alienation