Committed Quote by Thomas Berry

“Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.”

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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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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 a mutually…

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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 individual self,…

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To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The…

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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 hear the…

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During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness…

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As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

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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 the Earth…

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There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of…

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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... The human…

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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 traditions will…

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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 the inner…

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