“The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.”

“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 Earth is primary. Human beings are derivative.”

— Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts* (2006)

“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)