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

“If the Earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our …”

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

“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)