Earth Quote by Thomas Berry

“Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.”

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.

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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, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy…

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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 magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues…

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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 emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior…

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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 as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.

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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 being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity…

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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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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans…

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of…

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Then all this earth shines like one house.

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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