55 Quotes by Thomas Berry

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

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

The Great Work – the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

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

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.

Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human – at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.

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