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The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.
Thomas Berry
if we feel intimately united with all that exists (#11)
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
Thomas Berry
social love moves us to devise larger strategies to halt environmental degradation (#231)
It is we human beings above all who need to change (#202)
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
Thomas Berry
[T]he ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion…Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience. (#217)
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
Thomas Berry
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry