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A wonderful and beautiful book. --James Lovelock<br /><br />Animate Earth represents systems science at its best ... gives a whole new dimension to what environment-friendly really means. --Jonathon Porritt, Chairman, UK Sustainable Development Commission<br /><br />Animate Earth is a brilliant synthesis of Gaian science and forward-looking social theory. This is big-picture thinking that can truly help to heal the Earth. --Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director, International Society for Ecology and Culture
Animate Earth represents systems science at its best ... gives a whole new dimension to what environment-friendly really means. --Jonathon Porritt, Chairman, UK Sustainable Development Commission
Animate Earth is a brilliant synthesis of Gaian science and forward-looking social theory. This is big-picture thinking that can truly help to heal the Earth. --Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director, International Society for Ecology and Culture
Animate Earth represents systems science at its best ... gives a whole new dimension to what environment-friendly really means. --Jonathon Porritt, Chairman, UK Sustainable Development Commission
Animate Earth is a brilliant synthesis of Gaian science and forward-looking social theory. This is big-picture thinking that can truly help to heal the Earth. --Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director, International Society for Ecology and Culture
Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life and The Turning Point
Stephan Harding knows the science of Gaia thoroughly, and is passionate about it
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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In my view Stephan Harding's "Animate Earth" is the best book yet written on Gaia. Gregory Bateson used to talk about the need for rigour and imagination. Harding brings precisely these qualities to the job of writing about the Earth.
Harding has shown in his work at Schumacher College that he is a brilliant teacher -- witty, learned and just wonderfully alive. He invests all of himself in this book. It is Harding's gift to Gaia, a work of love.
Harding has shown in his work at Schumacher College that he is a brilliant teacher -- witty, learned and just wonderfully alive. He invests all of himself in this book. It is Harding's gift to Gaia, a work of love.
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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This book offers a brilliant new approach - at once rigorous, experiential, and intuitive - to the most up-to-date research within planetary ecology. Harding is a close associate of James Lovelock, the polymathic scientist who formulated the Gaia hypothesis - the theory that the chemical composition of the earth's atmosphere, its temperature, the salinity of its oceans, and a host of other variables are continually monitored and modulated by all the earth's organic constituents acting collectively, as a vast planetary metabolism. Originally considered an utterly radical hypothesis when first proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's insight early on attracted the active support and research interest of one of the most far-seeing American biologists, the audacious microbial biologist Lynn Margulis, and has since, as their evidence mounted, garnered more and more respect from the scientific community. Today most of the theory's tenets have been integrated within the standard account of planetary ecology.
Harding - the staff scientist at Schumacher College - brings a new, deeply participatory approach to the articulation of whole earth science, employing a nuanced sense of philosophy and the history of ideas in order to demonstrate the transformative, paradigm-shattering power of Gaian theory. Throughout his lucid presentation of recent and ongoing empirical research, Harding strives to show the relevance of these remarkable discoveries to our most personal experience of the world immediately around us.
Current evidence is pushing various researchers in the natural sciences away from the through-going objectivism of previous science toward a more animistic acknowledgment that the biosphere in which we're immersed is more a living subject than a determinate object, and hence that their research is less a pursuit of inert and unchanging "facts," than it is an ongoing participation, and dialog, with a vast, spherical sentience whose corporeal complexity we can never completely fathom, and whose actions we can never entirely predict. At every step in his presentation, Harding offers richly imaginative and meditative exercises for the reader to try, as a way to experience these insights viscerally and corporeally - as a way to EMBODY this new understanding of our physiological interdependence (or interbeing) with the animate earth, and so to let this understanding resonate within our daily life.
At such a precarious historical moment as this one we're in, such creative, interdisciplinary visions as Harding's are catalyzing a new and more mature kind of science. They provoke a new kind of intelligence - a rationality informed by our ongoing sensory experience of the world around us, and by the empathic heart beating within our chest - a keen and rigorous intelligence that places itself in service not to humankind alone, but to the wild, more-than-human community of life.
Harding - the staff scientist at Schumacher College - brings a new, deeply participatory approach to the articulation of whole earth science, employing a nuanced sense of philosophy and the history of ideas in order to demonstrate the transformative, paradigm-shattering power of Gaian theory. Throughout his lucid presentation of recent and ongoing empirical research, Harding strives to show the relevance of these remarkable discoveries to our most personal experience of the world immediately around us.
Current evidence is pushing various researchers in the natural sciences away from the through-going objectivism of previous science toward a more animistic acknowledgment that the biosphere in which we're immersed is more a living subject than a determinate object, and hence that their research is less a pursuit of inert and unchanging "facts," than it is an ongoing participation, and dialog, with a vast, spherical sentience whose corporeal complexity we can never completely fathom, and whose actions we can never entirely predict. At every step in his presentation, Harding offers richly imaginative and meditative exercises for the reader to try, as a way to experience these insights viscerally and corporeally - as a way to EMBODY this new understanding of our physiological interdependence (or interbeing) with the animate earth, and so to let this understanding resonate within our daily life.
At such a precarious historical moment as this one we're in, such creative, interdisciplinary visions as Harding's are catalyzing a new and more mature kind of science. They provoke a new kind of intelligence - a rationality informed by our ongoing sensory experience of the world around us, and by the empathic heart beating within our chest - a keen and rigorous intelligence that places itself in service not to humankind alone, but to the wild, more-than-human community of life.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I attended several lectures by Stephen at Schumacher College in 2005, it was my first introduction to Gaia theory, I found some of the concepts extremely difficult to grasp and even harder to explain to other people. Animate Earth is easily accessable to any level of reader and breathes life and vision into Lovelock's work. I would reccomend this book to anyone interested in understanding Gaia theory, holistic science and the interconnectivity of all life. I love the way this book weaves together hard science with more intuitive and qualitative understandings of the world!
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Life-changing
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Published 8 months ago by Gill Coombs
Brilliant book! I love it!
I bought this book for a module for my Geography degree programme. This book was brilliant. Not a chore to read in the slightest. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2009 by L. J. Stockwell
A Wild, Complex, Dynamic Being
"A vild, complex, dynamic being" - that's what Stephan Harding calls Earth in his book Animate Earth. Science, Intuition and Gaia (2006). Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by Erland.Lagerroth
A hugely important book introducing the key idea of our time
This is a wonderful book that goes much further than just giving a very readable, clear and solid introduction to Gaia Theory. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2008 by Chris Johnstone
Most Important Book of 21st Century
In my view this is the most important book I have ever read - and I have read many. It is a seminal work, as was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Read more
Published on 5 May 2006 by Richard S. Jones
Animate Earth
Real science - not boring but fun & full of enthusiasm. Looking forward to his next book.
Published on 11 April 2006
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