The Earth System Quotes

“The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components.'
These words marked an abrupt transition from a previously solid conventional wisdom in which biologists held that organisms adapt to, but do not change, their environments and in which Earth scientists held that geological forces alone could explain the evolution of the atmosphere, crust and oceans.”
― James Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia