deep ecology
practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world
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.
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 …
The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
We are not going into the future, we are going into the mystery.
We are the Earth become conscious of itself.
We bear the universe in our beings as the universe bears us in its being.
We need to move from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world.
Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a cultural historian, cosmologist, and self-described “geologian” who examined human-Earth relationships through the lens of both scientific cosmology and …