“Le regard analytique et le regard intuitif sur la vie ne peuvent s'harmoniser dans un même être que dans la mesure où le premier est subordonné au second. C'est du second, et notamment du sentiment de beauté et de compassion qu'il enferme, que découle le sens de la totalité de même que celui des équilibres et de la limite. Le regard intuitif est la condition de la sagesse sans laquelle le regard analytique peut conduire à des excès suicidaires. L'analyse des phénomènes donne de la puissance sur eux, elle permet de dominer la nature, mais elle n'enferme aucune indication quant aux limites qu'il convient d'assigner à cette puissance.” EarthScienceEcologyGaia Author:James Lovelock
“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.” InspirationalEnvironmentMaterialsEvolutionDancePartnersEntityGaia Author:James Lovelock
“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 has been going for only 30 years or so.” IfsYearsHas BeensTheoryEvolutionMainstreamQuantumPlatesMechanicQuantum MechanicsGaia Author: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 scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.” KnowsBookDoneEarthLyingUnderstandingDangerNeededMetaphorComprehensionTrue NatureGaia Author:James Lovelock
“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 Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.” ShouldHumansWellsMayIdeasHelpingAgeProcessAwarenessInvolvedActivityBehaviorTasksSpeciesDestructiveNew AgeConstructiveHuman ActivityFacilitateConvertingCooperativesBirthingGaia Author:James Lovelock
“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 ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.” WorldWayNeedsYearsFirstsEarthChristianHumanityIndividualSixYears AgoThreatBillionsLifestyleSignificantHungryHumanistUrbanGreedyBlindnessLinkedInfrastructureDomainBenignGaia Book:The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity Source: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
