Thomas Berry (1914-2009), ecological & cosmological teacher & writer, cultural historian, & influential environmental thinker. Tweets by @DrewDellinger, PhD.
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Cosmologist, teacher, and Berry-collaborator, Brian Swimme, with @SHSoakland and @drewdellinger, at the @CIIS_SF launch event for Swimme's new book, Cosmogenesis.
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My teacher, Thomas Berry @EssentialBerry, wrote an absurd number of forewords, and I just added a new one to my collection!
"The sacred can't be for just a few people, it has to be for everybody."
--Thomas Berry (interview w/ @drewdellinger, Nov. 4, 2002)
"To become serious is no good. Serious people are terrible.
To be non-trivial does not mean to be serious.
The fulfillment of life lies between the trivial and the serious."
—Thomas Berry in Assisi (1992)
"When we say 'tree' we are actually talking about a relationship of soil, air, sun, and moisture.
To designate a tree alone is impossible, an abstraction."
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"So, too, with the human. We have no existence apart from the total Earth community that births us, sustains us, and participates in every facet of our lives."
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"In our science the part is primary, the whole is derivative. Science is frustrated by wholes."
--Thomas Berry, critiquing modern, Western science; (Assisi 1992)
“Our cosmology becomes our ethics.”
—@RevDrMatthewFox, “Some Thoughts on Thomas Berry’s Contributions to the Western Spiritual Tradition.”
Thomas Berry on "progress" (1991):
"We must always ask, 'in relation to what?' Progress, development, in relation to what? And at what cost?"
"Our scientists have just been plain stupid. The petroleum is there [in the ground] for a very good reason—to store the carbon so as to maintain the chemical balance of the atmosphere, to keep the life systems viable."
--Thomas Berry (1991)
“As soon as you say, ‘Our Father who art in heaven,’ you’re lost, because you’re into the patriarchal, transcendent deity.”
—Thomas Berry in Assisi