#gaia

Who are you?’ Gaia gasped. The girl froze for a moment. Looked at her. Smiled and said, ‘Who am I? I’m the Breeze, bitch! ↗

— Michael Grant

#breeze-quote #brianna #funny #gaia #humor

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess. ↗

— Steven Kotler

#life

The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown up for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children. That's what science is good for. It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#rationalism #science #scientism #ufo #western-culture

Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l'éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa ↗

— Edouard Goldsmith

#education #gaia #society #education

A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live ↗

— Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

#ecosexuality #gaia #new-science #peace #polyamory

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. ↗

— Lynn Margulis

#science #change

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#charles-eisenstein #ecology #economics #gaia #gift-giving

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have. ↗

— Chris d'Lacey

#gaia #life #nature #life

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. ↗

— William Golding

#earth #environment #gaia #life #nature

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. ↗

— James E. Lovelock

#ecology #gaia #science #nature