Gaia: The Human Journey from Chaos to CosmosThe first popularly written explanation of the scientific theory galvanizing both New Age and scientific circles: the GAIA Hypothesis. |
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... ourselves from the world as observers of it , not to think of ourselves as separate from our knowledge , not to think of our languages as languages and our minds as minds , or our world as something to know about in our minds . Yet all ...
... ourselves from the world as observers of it , not to think of ourselves as separate from our knowledge , not to think of our languages as languages and our minds as minds , or our world as something to know about in our minds . Yet all ...
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... ourselves punished by the enormous problems we have created along with our modern technology . Like any adolescent who is suddenly aware of having created a very real life crisis , our species faces a choice - the choice between ...
... ourselves punished by the enormous problems we have created along with our modern technology . Like any adolescent who is suddenly aware of having created a very real life crisis , our species faces a choice - the choice between ...
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... ourselves as the pinnacle of natural evolution . In both views nature was ours to command and exploit as we liked . Only when we ourselves began suffering from the damage we had done to our environment did we begin to gain a more ...
... ourselves as the pinnacle of natural evolution . In both views nature was ours to command and exploit as we liked . Only when we ourselves began suffering from the damage we had done to our environment did we begin to gain a more ...
Contents
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR | 9 |
FOREWORD BY JAMES E LOVELOCK | 13 |
A TWICETOLD TALE | 19 |
Copyright | |
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