"We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for……" — Thomas Berry
"We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself."
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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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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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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one…
— David Attenborough
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the…
— Diane Ackerman
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The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and…
— Gaylord Nelson
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its…
— Richard Leakey
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives,…
— Wangari Maathai
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What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now…
— Stephanie Mills
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our…
— Unknown Author
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished…
— Norman Myers
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Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed…
— Norman Myers
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We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland,…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
— Unknown Author
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