Gaia Quotes
21 quotes by 13 authors
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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself…
— James Wolcott
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The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is a…
— Fritjof Capra
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The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical,…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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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
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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 in…
— Ken Wilber
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I…
— Robert Frost
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I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically…
— James Lovelock
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Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the…
— Francine Pascal
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Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of…
— James Lovelock
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Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years…
— James Lovelock
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If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space.…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
— James Lovelock
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If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia…
— James Lovelock
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He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of…
— Francine Pascal
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
— Terence McKenna
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The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going…
— Michael Grant
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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 bird…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?†Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me, 
— Michael Grant
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Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost…
— Michael Grant
Who Wrote These Gaia Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 21 Gaia Quotes as follows: