"Thomas Berry (left), author of The Dream of the Earth, does not fit the image of a typical environmentalist. A Catholic monk in his late eighties, he is a philosophical forebear to younger generations of activists. His main focus is not the immediate battles being fought, but the roots of the problem, which he traces back to the very beginnings of Western civilization."
" The mission of our times is to reinvent what it means to be human. I've always liked the title of Chellis Glendinning's book My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization. We somehow have to get beyond Western civilization, which is so destructive in its present state. Such a profound change is hard really to apprehend. It's an alteration so absolute and so far-reaching in its implications that a person has to wonder what continuity might remain." - Thomas Berry (from the interview)
To read the interview - go to:
http://www.derrickjensen.org/berry.html
http://www.derrickjensen.org/berry.html
