"Just now one of the significant historical roles……" — Thomas Berry
"Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call the entire civilized world back to a more authentic mode of being."
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72 Quotes by Thomas Berry
Thomas Berry has 72 quotes on this site.
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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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More Authentic Quotes
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look…
— Alan Alda
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any…
— Albert Camus
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting…
— Nick Cave
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going…
— Chris Christie
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
— Pamela Anderson
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