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Lynn Margulis has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was…
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.…
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of…
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one…
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The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it…
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek,…
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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two…
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet…
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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.…
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Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
— David Foreman
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Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living…
— Khalil Gibran
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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…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.…
— James Lovelock
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Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence…
— Michael Dowd
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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…
— James Lovelock
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet…
— Lynn Margulis
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Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied…
— Henry David Thoreau
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