"We must now understand that our own well-being……" — Thomas Berry
"We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us."
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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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