People Quote by Thomas Berry

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

— Thomas Berry

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually…

— Thomas Berry

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,…

— Thomas Berry

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

— Thomas Berry

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the…

— Thomas Berry

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

— Thomas Berry

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

— Thomas Berry

Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth…

— Thomas Berry

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

— Thomas Berry

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…

— Thomas Berry

The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will…

— Thomas Berry

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner…

— Thomas Berry