Thomas Berry articulated a vision of an approaching “Ecozoic Era” in which human societies would live in a sustainable and mutually beneficial manner with the natural world. The Center for Ecozoic Studies in Chapel Hill plans to publish a tribute to Berry this year.
“It’s a big loss,” said Nelson Stover, a Greensboro resident and Berry follower. “One of the great minds of the 20th century is not with us anymore. At the same time, there’s no question that his legacy will continue.”
Born William Nathan Berry, the third child of Elizabeth and William Berry, he took the name Thomas as a young adult in honor of the Catholic saint and philosopher Thomas Aquinas.
Nearly since that time, he was a student of the earth and the human condition.
“in which human societies would live in a sustainable and mutually beneficial manner with the natural world.” Barring the occasional plague, swarm of locusts, drought, etc. It’s one of the signs, actually, of how far cut-off from “nature” modern Homo Urbans is that he has no notion of the frequency with which Nature, when left to her own pure devices, attempts to kill us and our children off.