Thomas Berry Short Quotes

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The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Thomas Berry
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

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

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

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Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

Thomas Berry
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

Thomas Berry
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

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We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.

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Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

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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.

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The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

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