Evening Thoughts

Praise

Praise for Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community

“The wisdom of Thomas Berry is a mountain stream – clear, brilliant, revealing, bracing and sustaining, flowing from deep time and the essential Earth. In these bewildering years, I thirst for Thomas Berry’s insights. I drink him in great gulps. I give thanks for the beautiful, inspiring Evening Thoughts, which collects his wisdom and offers it in cupped hands.”—Kathleen Dean Moore, author, Riverwalking and coeditor, Moral Ground

“In darkening times Thomas Berry announces the dawn of a new Earth–centered consciousness grounded in a larger view of humankind and a deeper sense of the sacred. Evening Thoughts is a very great gift from a very wise man.”—David Orr, counselor to the President, Oberlin College

“If we listen deeply to Thomas Berry’s persistent articulation of the voice of the Earth, we can begin to learn to join the Earth Community as the authentic way of fully embodying our humanity.”—Tu Weiming, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University

“One of the great thinkers of our time, Berry offers a vision of intimacy with the Earth as our way to intimacy with each other. This is a marvelous continuation of the Berry canon.”—James Gustave Speth, author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy

“As always, the voice of Thomas Berry manages to be simultaneously calm, sweeping, insistent, particular. It’s a voice we badly need to keep hearing.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature“Berry is our conscience, our prophet, our guide. He speaks to what is best within us, in a voice that is inclusive, ecumenical, generous, and wise.” –Orion

“The most provocative figure among the new breed of eco–theologians.” –Newsweek