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Thomas Berry Quotes about Nature

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The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have

The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.

Thomas Berry
Nature, Stars, Flower
"A Language Older Than Words". Book by Derrick Jensen (p. 361), 2000.

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

Thomas Berry
Nature, Children, Teaching
Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Thomas Berry
Nature, World, Natural

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

Thomas Berry
Nature, Community, Desert

The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

Thomas Berry
Nature, Sunset, Sunshine

The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

Thomas Berry
Nature, Animal, Voice

What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.

Thomas Berry
Nature, Animal, Errors

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