Book description
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it isā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked We Belong to Gaia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Wow, what can I say about this little gem? It still makes me dizzy to think of myself as a sort of āintracellular organelleā belonging to the great organism Gaia. Can more be said in fewer pages and with such humility from the master?
I recall the words of physicist Richard Feynman (which, incidentally, Klein quotes in my previous recommendation) when he says something like If you think you understand quantum mechanics, that can only mean that you donāt truly understand quantum mechanics.
Well, how can you not love Lovelock, who, after more than 50 years since he first proposedā¦
From Paco's list on The best books to grasp (once and for all!) that we, humans, are not that special.
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