The Great Work

Berry is both a brilliant thinker and a theologian, (he is known as a geologian) and this book is the culmination of his career (he's in his eighties). No other writer has such a comprehensive or historically rich vision of the way in which we must address the future. The Great Work is to find a way to heal the planet. Berry tells us how to respond to the earth, enter into a conversation with it - an understanding on which our life and its depends. He explains the spiritual dynamics of the universe and how we need to move from our human-centered to an earth-centered view of reality. We must recognize that the earth belongs to itself and not to us. Berry's writing is lucid, spare, and beautiful.