Earth Community Quotes by Thomas Berry

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• Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
• We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…
• Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an…
• We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't…
• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute…
• Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…
• Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…
• The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human…
• The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…
• We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…
• The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty.…
• If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…

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