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Community Quotes by Thomas Berry
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common…
- The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of…
- The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse…
- The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars…
- We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.
- Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension…
More Community Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their… — Joe Baca
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
- You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher