I call Gaia a physiological system because it appears to…

“Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma of the…

— James Lovelock

“Unfortunately, we are a species with schizoid tendencies, and like an old lady who has to share her house with a growing and destructive…

— James E. Lovelock

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around.…

— James Lovelock

I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the…

— James Lovelock

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear…

— J. K. Rowling

“I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.” And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to…

— Caragh M. O'Brien

“There were times when I was blown away by the virgin beauty of the land. Kind of like that guy who lost his shit…

— Kevin Hearne

“Gaia spoke in a complex language of predator and prey, of growth and dormancy, of birth and migration, of seasonal change, of storms, of…

— Linda Nagata

“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this…

— Steven Kotler

Human history is a Gaian dream.

— Terence McKenna

“Who are you?’ Gaia gasped. The girl froze for a moment. Looked at her. Smiled and said, ‘Who am I? I’m the Breeze, bitch!”

— Michael Grant

In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life…

— David Easton

The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state…

— Daniel O'Sullivan

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement…

— Ken Wilber