"The natural world is the larger sacred community……" — Thomas Berry
"The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence."
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Thomas Berry
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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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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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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in…
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace…
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they…
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Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh -…
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