This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has
established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it,
noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new
intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary
well-being as the measure of all human activity.
Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American
traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry
offers a new perspective that recasts our understanding of science, technology,
politics, religion, ecology, and education. He shows us why it is important for
us to respond to the Earth's need for planetary renewal,