- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (2 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0871566222
- ISBN-13: 978-0871566225
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 500,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This acclaimed inaugural volume of the "Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library" considers our ecological fate from a species perspective, the way "The Fate of the Earth" viewed our prospects for nuclear annihilation. Thomas Berry's seminal thesis proposes a universal 'biocratic' criterion to evaluate human history, development, and activity. He contends that the validity of any human enterprise is the degree to which it enhances the universal life force. Berry builds his case on a comprehensive review of the history of ideas, and he points toward a transformation of consciousness that is needed if we and the planet are to survive."The Dream of the Earth" provides the insights, inspiration, and ethical guidance we need to move beyond exploitation or disengagement toward a transcendent vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world. Drawing upon the wisdom of thinkers from Buddha and Plato to Teilhard de Chardin and E F Schumacher, from ancient Chinese philosophy and Native American shamanism to contemporary astrophysics, Berry forges a balanced, deeply felt declaration of planetary independence from the sociological, psychological, and intellectual conditioning that threatens the death of nature, offering a path that will avert ecological catastrophe and move our traumatized planet toward health.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This work is one of the most important books that you can read today. "We are living in interesting times." The Chinese consider the above quote to be one of the worst curses that can be placed upon someone.
If we do not create a new mythology about who we are and how we live, then the earth will do away with us.
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It's good to read this classic and see how Berry built his great argument for the merger of theology with ecology. But from a perspective of nearly 25 years later, the language seems like a temporary bridge between worlds. It sounds like a sermon, exhorting us to connect, feel, and envision. At this stage in his great work, Berry was not expressing his own dream of the earth so much as arguing in favor of creating one.
--author of The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History
--author of The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Thomas does deserve credit for helping to re-cover a sense of earth consciousness. However, in most of his books, and especially this one, he brings in elements of his personal appreciation for a religion (Catholicism) and its veneration of idols combining them with a kind of eco-spiritualism.
Perhaps Berry's best accomplishment is in inspiring newer writers like Brian Swimme who's works stand above most other Gaian-type writers.
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