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Thomas Berry, cujo nome completo era William Nathan Berry, C.P., foi um sacerdote católico norte-americano da ordem Passionista, historiador cultural e eco-teólogo .

Dentre os defensores da ecologia profunda e "eco-espiritualidade", é conhecido por propor que um entendimento profundo da história e do funcionamento do universo em evolução é a inspiração e orientação necessária para o nosso próprio funcionamento como indivíduos e como espécie. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Novembro 1914 – 1. Junho 2009
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“We … wish especially to outline the conditions for entering a future that will lead to the larger fulfillment for which the entire planet, as well as ourselves, seems to be destined. The first condition for achieving this objective is to realize that the universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.”

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Fonte: Evening Thoughts, Chapter 1, p. 17

“Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.”

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Reported in Food for the Spirit https://books.google.it/books?id=EL8nAAAAYAAJ by Steven Rosen (New York: Bala Books, 1987), in the “Critics praise” section.

“The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not primarily of objects to be used. As a subject, each component of the universe is capable of having rights.”

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Appendix 2, p. 149
Evening Thoughts

“Our relation with the animals finds its expression especially in the amazing variety of benefits they provide for us in their guidance, protection, and companionship. Beyond these modes of assistance, they provide a world of wonder and meaning for the mind—beauty for the imagination. Even beyond all these, they provide an emotional intimacy that is unique, that can come to us from no other source. The animals can do for us, both physically and spiritually, what we cannot do for ourselves or for each other. These more precious gifts they provide through their presence and their responsiveness to our inner needs.”

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Fonte: Evening Thoughts, Chapter 3, p. 39

“Even with all our technological accomplishments and urban sophistication, we consider ourselves blessed, healed in some manner, forgiven, and for a moment transported into some other world, when we catch a passing glimpse of an animal in the wild: a deer in some woodland, a fox crossing a field, a butterfly in its dancing flight southward to its wintering region, a hawk soaring in the distant sky, a hummingbird come into our garden, fireflies signaling to each other in the evening. So we might describe the thousandfold moments when we experience our meetings with the animals in their unrestrained and undomesticated status. Such incidents as these remind us that the universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not of objects to be exploited.”

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Fonte: Evening Thoughts, Chapter 3, pp. 37-38