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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
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"What a beautiful, gem of a book. I’m glad I found it in the store! "
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life:
"LOVED this book! Such a fascinating read about the life on earth from micro organisms in rocks, water, and air to larger life forms and the roles they play in defining earth as an ecosystem "
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"Hopeful and dire, poetic and informative, and overall, delightfully nondualistic in its approach to life and planet Earth."
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Una creatura chiamata Terra: Come la vita ha trasformato il pianeta (Italian Edition):
"Una visione scientifica che cambia radicalmente la prospettiva sulla vita planetaria
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“To recognize that deep subsurface life not only exists but is also engaged in a continuous alchemy of earth—that it may have helped create the very crust it inhabits and on which all terrestrial life stands—is to redefine the modern understanding of how our planet came to be.”
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“Historically, evolution has been depicted as linear and branching, like a tree, or cross-linked, like a web. Although those metaphors certainly capture many evolutionary processes, others are much more sinuous—even circular. Again and again, life and environment alter each other through feedback loops. Through their behaviors and byproducts, living creatures make lasting changes to their surroundings that partly determine the fate of their descendants and of other species. Microbes can seed clouds. Forests on one continent can make it rain on another. Breath can sway a planet.”
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“The universe is indifferent to us, moving inexorably towards a state of maximum entropy in which living planets like ours - in which life of any kind - will be impossible. Earth is a beautiful rebellion and a precarious miracle: a garden in the void.”
― Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
― Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
“Historically, evolution has been depicted as linear and branching, like a tree, or cross-linked, like a web. Although those metaphors certainly capture many evolutionary processes, others are much more sinuous—even circular. Again and again, life and environment alter each other through feedback loops. Through their behaviors and byproducts, living creatures make lasting changes to their surroundings that partly determine the fate of their descendants and of other species. Microbes can seed clouds. Forests on one continent can make it rain on another. Breath can sway a planet.”
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
“Without synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, today’s global crop harvest would be halved and two out of every five people currently alive would not exist.”
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
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“Historically, evolution has been depicted as linear and branching, like a tree, or cross-linked, like a web. Although those metaphors certainly capture many evolutionary processes, others are much more sinuous—even circular. Again and again, life and environment alter each other through feedback loops. Through their behaviors and byproducts, living creatures make lasting changes to their surroundings that partly determine the fate of their descendants and of other species. Microbes can seed clouds. Forests on one continent can make it rain on another. Breath can sway a planet.”
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
“To recognize that deep subsurface life not only exists but is also engaged in a continuous alchemy of earth—that it may have helped create the very crust it inhabits and on which all terrestrial life stands—is to redefine the modern understanding of how our planet came to be.”
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
― Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
