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 …

- Thomas Berry

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

- Thomas Berry

In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this comm…

- Thomas Berry

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars…

- Thomas Berry

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper product…

- Thomas Berry

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

- Thomas Berry

In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is no spir…

- Thomas Berry

What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To …

- Thomas Berry

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

- Thomas Berry