"In relation to the earth we have been……" — Thomas Berry
"In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe."
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Thomas Berry
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72 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.
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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of…
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Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a…
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if…
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to…
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Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of…
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred…
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all…
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down…
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The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world…
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human…
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
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