“If the Earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the Earth and its inhabitants.”

“The Earth is primary. Human beings are derivative.”

— Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts* (2006)

“The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period …”

— Thomas Berry, The Great Work* (1999)

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

— Thomas Berry, The Universe Story* (1992)

“We are not going into the future, we are going into the mystery.”

— Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth* (1988)

“We are the Earth become conscious of itself.”

— Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth* (1988)

“We bear the universe in our beings as the universe bears us in its being.”

— Thomas Berry, The Universe Story* (1992)