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# Thomas Berry

(1914–2009)   Theologian

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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 · Page 2

> [If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/if-the-earth-does-grow-inhospitable-toward-human-presence-it-is/)

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[Courtesy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courtesy/)

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> [The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-great-work-the-work-of-ensuring-a-just-healthy-beautiful-and/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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> [Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/teaching-children-about-the-natural-world-should-be-seen-as-one-of/)

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[Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/child/)

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> [We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-must-now-understand-that-our-own-well-being-can-be-achieved-only/)

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[Health](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/health/)

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> [In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-our-totality-we-are-born-of-the-earth-our-spirituality-itself-is/)

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> [We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-are-not-lacking-in-the-dynamic-forces-needed-to-create-the-future/)

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> [The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-earth-will-solve-its-problems-and-possibly-our-own-if-we-will-let/)

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

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> [Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-difficulty-is-that-we-have-become-autistic-we-no-longer-listen-to/)

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[Autistic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autistic/)

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> [Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/our-present-urgency-is-to-recover-a-sense-of-the-primacy-of-the/)

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> [But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/but-if-a-peaceful-world-is-beyond-politics-it-is-also-beyond/)

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[Existence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence/)

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> [The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-future-rests-in-the-religious-political-economic-and-cultural/)

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> [Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/just-now-one-of-the-significant-historical-roles-of-the-primal-people/)

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> [Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/diversity-is-the-magic-it-is-the-first-manifestation-the-first/)

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[Brotherhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brotherhood/)

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> [The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-natural-world-is-the-larger-sacred-community-to-which-we-belong/)

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> [The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-great-work-now-as-we-move-into-a-new-millennium-is-to-carry-out/)

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> [In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/in-reality-there-is-a-single-integral-community-of-the-earth-that/)

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[Aesthetic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aesthetic/)

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> [Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/wildness-we-might-consider-as-the-root-of-the-authentic-spontaneities/)

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> [The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-must-be-experienced-as-the-great-self-each-is-fulfilled/)

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

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> [Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/both-education-and-religion-need-to-ground-themselves-within-the/)

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

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> [We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-have-indeed-been-out-in-space-but-some-are-under-the-illusion-that/)

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> [We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-come-here-because-we-too-feel-a-responsibility-for-the-human/)

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> [Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/earth-as-we-know-it-came-into-being-through-its-four-great-components/)

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> [We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-might-sometimes-reflect-and-recall-that-the-purpose-of-all-our/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/so-long-as-we-are-under-the-illusion-that-we-know-best-what-is-good/)

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

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> [Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/of-one-thing-we-can-be-sure-our-own-future-is-inseparable-from-the/)

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[Aesthetic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aesthetic/)

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> [Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/yet-we-can-be-sure-that-whatever-fictions-exist-in-wall-street/)

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[Accuracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accuracy/)

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> [As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/as-in-creating-some-significant-work-the-artist-first-experiences/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-universe-is-composed-of-subjects-to-be-communed-with-not-objects/)

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

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> [If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/if-the-religious-experience-were-simply-some-naive-impression-of-the/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/from-a-large-planet-of-overwhelming-magnitude-unlimited-resources-and/)

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

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> [We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-cannot-discover-ourselves-without-first-discovering-the-universe/)

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> [All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/all-human-professions-institutions-and-activities-must-be-integral/)

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> [It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/it-s-all-a-question-of-story-we-are-in-trouble-just-now-because-we-do/)

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> [All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/all-human-activities-professions-programs-and-institutions-must/)

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> [Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/everything-is-integral-and-interacts-with-everything-else-this-means/)

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[Charity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charity/)

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> [The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-world-of-life-of-spontaneity-the-world-of-dawn-and-sunset-and/)

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

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> [What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/what-does-the-earth-desire-i-will-put-it-in-just-a-few-short/)

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> [Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/every-being-has-its-own-interior-its-self-its-mystery-its-numinous/)

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> [We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-are-talking-only-to-ourselves-we-are-not-talking-to-the-rivers-we/)

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[Autism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autism/)

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> [The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/the-child-awakens-to-a-universe-the-mind-of-the-child-to-a-world-of/)

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

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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/)

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