38 Quotes About Gaia

May the Luminous Child awaken in you.

The planet is going to have the last word concerning the damage humans are inflicting upon it. It’s only going to take so much abuse, and then it may well burp and snort a little, and destroy a good bit of the population. I don’t think it would be a stretch to take the hypothesis one step further and attribute such a defense strategy to a kind of planetary intelligence.

I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.”And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.Marry me, he thought.

Please put your shirt on,” she said.He pulled it over his head, checking the buttons. “Better?”She looked exhausted, and happy, and too bighearted to believe. So why did he still feel anguished? He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her onto his lap.“Hey!” She laughed, hugging an arm around him.He snuggled his nose in her hair and kissed her neck. Mine, he thought.“They’ll see,” she muttered.They’d better. “Let them. It’s legal.”She laughed again and quickly kissed him. Finally.

Are we napping?” she asked.“For a little,” he said.He wasn’t napping. He concentrated every cell of his body on memorizing the weight of her against him, and the smell of her hair in the sun. His arms measured the slender curve of her torso. His fingers separated out a single strand of her hair. Her breathing slowed, easing, while his watchful heart chugged on, stupid and hungry, and the red bracelet stayed in his pocket.

And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other.“Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively.“You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

Why would Gaia be back at camp?’ Leo asked. ‘Percy’s nosebleed was here.’ ‘Dude,’ Percy said, ‘first off, you heard Athena – don’t blame my nose. Second, Gaia’s the earth. She can pop up anywhere she wants. Besides, she told us she was going to do this. She said the first thing on her to-do list was destroying our camp. Question is: how do we stop her?

The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth.

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.