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Quotes from Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth — James Lovelock

1919–2022 England

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The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Lovelock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.