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 community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its own inner spontaneity. Every being has its own voice. Every being declares itself to the entire universe. Every being enters into communion with other beings. In every phase of our imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional lives we are profoundly dependent on this larger context of the surrounding world.
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
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
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. - Thomas Berry
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
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
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…
The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis. - Thomas Berry
The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at… - Thomas Berry
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at…
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