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• Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod
• Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
• Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an… — Gregory Bateson
• Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that… — Murray Gell-Mann
• Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson
• We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
• When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an… — Mary Midgley
• ...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil
• What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into… — Jeremy Rifkin
• We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin
• Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler
• The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman

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