Gaia

Quotes

• “The globe of the Earth stands supportless in space... Just as the [spherical] bulb of a Kadamba flower is covered all around by blossoms, just so is the globe of the Earth surrounded by all creatures, terrestrial as well as aquatic.”
• “We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be”
• “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
• “The earth was made so various, that the mindOf desultory man, studious of changeAnd pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”
• “They witnessed the start of an era of unprecedented global consumption of living resources, the transformation of an earthly paradise 4.6 billion years in the making skimmed for the short-term service of a single insatiable species.”
• “And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.”

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