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For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth.

Thomas Berry

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Thomas Berry

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

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Born: November 9, 1914

Died: June 1, 2009 (aged 94)

Bio: Thomas Berry, C.P., PhD was a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian.

Known for:

The dream of the earth (1988)
The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future (1999)
Evening Thoughts (2006)
The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (2009)

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