Quotes by Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

Earth

Institutions

Program

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

Community

Earth

Self

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

Born

Earth

Healed

As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

Artist

Dream

Future

Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

Aspect

Earth

Erotic

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Diversity

Perfection

Simple

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.

Mind

Our World

Space

Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.

Integrity

Order

Self

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Garden

Religion

Spirit

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

Doe

Empathy

Kindness

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Accomplishment

Air

Animal

Appreciate

Arrogance

Artist

Aspect

Attention

Beautiful

Bird

Blow

Born

Chance

Children

Commitment

Communication

Communion

Community

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Demand

Desert

Diversity

Doe

Dream

Earth

Emotional

Empathy

Environmental

Erotic

Errors

Excellent

Expression

Faithful

Fit

Future

Garden

Giving

Growing Up

Healed

Healing

Historical

Humanity

Imagination

Inspirational

Inspiring

Institutions

Integrity

Issues

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Quotes by Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

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

Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

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