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James E. Lovelock

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July 26, 1919 in The United Kingdom

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http://www.jameslovelock.org/

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Science

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James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Devon, England. He is known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism.

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Books by James E. Lovelock

Average rating: 3.80 · 978 ratings · 126 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 3.79 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Revenge of Gaia by James E. Lovelock, Crispin Tickell (Foreword by) 3.74 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning 3.90 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth 3.83 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gaia and the Theory of the Living Planet 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Greening of Mars by James E. Lovelock, Michael Allaby 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by James E. Lovelock

“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.”
― James E. Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

tags: earth , ecology , gaia , hope , science

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“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

tags: earth , ecology , gaia , science

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