The Earth He Loved

"And then, amid the complexity and immobility of the rocks, there rise suddenly toward me 'gusts of being,' sudden and brief fits of awareness of the laborious unification of things, and it is no longer myself thinking, but the Earth acting. It is infinitely better."The words come from a century ago and the pen of the priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. THE EARTH HE LOVED takes you down the path of his life, winding its way through forests, deserts, mountains, and...
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"And then, amid the complexity and immobility of the rocks, there rise suddenly toward me 'gusts of being,' sudden and brief fits of awareness of the laborious unification of things, and it is no longer myself thinking, but the Earth acting. It is infinitely better."The words come from a century ago and the pen of the priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. THE EARTH HE LOVED takes you down the path of his life, winding its way through forests, deserts, mountains, and caves, over oceans, under skies, even to a place where dragons came to die. (Humanity's "missing link" was found there.) Walking it will awaken in you what it did in Teilhard: a sense of the planet as a whole, a sense of it moving through time, a sense of Spirit rising from its core. The future of the earth lies in our hands, he writes. "How shall we decide?"Along with THE WOMEN HE KNEW and THE STORY HE TOLD, THE EARTH HE LOVED complements TEILHARD: VISIONARY SCIENTIST, a documentary film that premiered in 2024. Beautifully illustrated with stills captured from the film, the books follow separate paths through Teilhard's life, each from beginning to end. Together, they form A TEILHARD TRILOGY.