55 Quotes by Thomas Berry

The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will find both support and fulfillment in a functional global community.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

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.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time.

Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.

Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but call the entire civilized world back to a more authentic mode of being.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.