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# Thomas Berry

(1914–2009)   Theologian

 **91** quotes in **667** categories

Thomas Berry says teaching kids about the natural world is one of the most important lessons. He believes the divine speaks through nature and that humans are born, nourished, and healed by the Earth. He urges us to see the Universe as our fundamental context.

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Thomas Berry was a theologian, best known for *Evening Thoughts*.

## Quick Facts About Thomas Berry

Born November 9, 1914

Died June 1, 2009

Profession Theologian

Notable works Evening Thoughts

## About Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry, CP was an American Catholic priest, cultural historian, and scholar of the world's religions, especially Asian traditions. Later, as he studied Earth history and evolution, he called himself a "geologian". He rejected the labels "theologian" and "ecotheologian" as too narrow and not descriptive of his religions arguments.

##  Quotes by Thomas Berry

> [The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-is-a-communion-of-subjects-not-a-collection-of-objects/)

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[Collections](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/collections/)

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> [The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-destiny-of-humans-cannot-be-separated-from-the-destiny-of-earth/)

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[Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/)

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> [Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/survival-in-any-meaningful-sense-is-the-key-issue-of-our-time/)

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[Issue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/issue/)

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> [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/)

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[Aspect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aspect/)

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> [Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/gardening-is-an-active-participation-in-the-deepest-mysteries-of-the/)

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> [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/)

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> [The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-environmental-crisis-is-fundamentally-a-spiritual-crisis/)

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[Crisis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crisis/)

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> [You cannot have well people on a sick planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/you-cannot-have-well-people-on-a-sick-planet/)

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[People](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-success-or-failure-of-any-historical-age-is-the-extent-to-which/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/it-is-false-to-say-that-humanity-is-the-most-excellent-being-in-the/)

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> [Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-fulfillment-is-not-in-our-isolated-human-grandeur-but-in-our/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-see-quite-clearly-that-what-happens-to-the-nonhuman-happens-to-the/)

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[Happens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happens/)

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> [The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-is-the-primary-revelation-of-the-divine-the-primary/)

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[Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bible/)

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> [We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-lose-our-souls-if-we-lose-the-experience-of-the-forest-the/)

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[Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bird/)

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> [Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/vegetarianism-is-a-way-of-life-that-we-should-all-move-toward-for/)

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[Economic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/economic/)

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> [Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/once-you-adopt-and-communicate-a-quality-policy-stick-with-it-live-it/)

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[Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/)

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> [The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-reduction-of-the-earth-to-an-object-simply-for-human-s-use/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/for-the-emergent-process-as-noted-by-the-geneticist-theodore/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-historical-mission-of-our-times-is-to-re-invent-the-human-at-the/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/what-is-happening-now-is-of-a-geological-and-biological-order-of/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-the-solar-system-and-planet-earth-in-themselves-and-in/)

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[All things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/all-things/)

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> [The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-excitement-of-life-is-in-the-numinous-experience-wherein-we-are/)

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[All things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/all-things/)

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> [We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-need-to-move-from-a-spirituality-of-alienation-from-the-natural/)

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[Alienation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alienation/)

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> [The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-is-a-unity-an-interacting-and-genetically-related/)

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[Activate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activate/)

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> [In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-relation-to-the-earth-we-have-been-autistic-for-centuries-only-now/)

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[Abandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abandon/)

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> [We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-need-merely-understand-that-the-evolutionary-process-is-neither/)

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[Appreciate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appreciate/)

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> [The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-human-venture-depends-absolutely-on-this-quality-of-awe-and/)

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[Achievement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achievement/)

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> [We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-find-ourselves-ethically-destitute-just-when-for-the-first-time-we/)

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[Biodiversity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biodiversity/)

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> [There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/there-is-a-spiritual-capacity-in-carbon-as-there-is-a-carbon/)

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[Awe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awe/)

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> [If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/if-the-outer-world-is-diminished-in-its-grandeur-then-the-emotional/)

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[Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bird/)

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> [The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-planet-earth-in-its-present-mode-of-florescence-is-being/)

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[Being there](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-there/)

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> [Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-main-source-of-psychic-energy-in-the-future-will-depend-on-our/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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> [The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-greater-the-diversity-the-greater-the-perfection/)

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[Differentiation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differentiation/)

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> [The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-real-skill-is-to-raise-the-sails-and-to-catch-the-power-of-the/)

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> [Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/scientists-have-suddenly-become-aware-of-the-magic-quality-of-the/)

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[Earth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/)

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> [We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-will-go-into-the-future-as-a-single-sacred-community-or-we-will/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/even-as-regards-earth-we-are-more-committed-to-history-than-to/)

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> [The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-divine-communicates-to-us-primarily-through-the-language-of-the/)

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[Communicate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communicate/)

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> [The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-present-urgency-is-to-begin-thinking-within-the-context-of-the/)

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[Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/)

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> [Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/of-all-the-issues-we-are-concerned-with-at-present-the-most-basic/)

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[Concerned](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/concerned/)

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## Thomas Berry by topic

[Earth (37)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/thomas-berry/) [Humans (36)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humans/thomas-berry/) [Universe (26)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/universe/thomas-berry/) [Life (24)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/thomas-berry/) [Nature (23)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature/thomas-berry/) [Community (19)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/thomas-berry/) [World (18)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/thomas-berry/) [Nature of man (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-man/thomas-berry/) [Time (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/thomas-berry/) [Religion (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/thomas-berry/) [Planets (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/planets/thomas-berry/) [Ifs (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/thomas-berry/)

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