“If you understand that you are made of stellar material, you understand your kinship with every other being.”

“Each being in the universe is the result of 13.8 billion years of creative development.”

— Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis (2022)

“Humans are that part of the Earth that has awakened to itself.”

— Brian Swimme, The Universe Story (1992)

“The future depends on whether we can learn to see ourselves as Earth.”

— Brian Swimme, Journey of the Universe (2011)

“The greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise is that we live in a developing universe.”

— Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis (2022)

“The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.”

— Brian Swimme, The Universe Story (1992)

“The universe is the primary sacred community, the primary revelation, the primary text.”

— Brian Swimme, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (1996)