~ GAIA    id+ | personification of EARTH |
          id+ | MOTHER EARTH |
          id+ | TERRESTRIAL |
  myth> GODDESS EARTH
  hx>   LOVESTOCK [#] defined EARTH as
       "SELF SUSTAING WHOLE" thus  sug> STABLE
  AN ORGANISM thus capable of sug> SYSTEM
  HOMEOSTATIS                 sug> STABILITY
  id+ | THE EARTH SEEN AS AN ORGANISM FIRST
        AND ITS STRUCTURE SECOND |
  lit+ "DIVINE EARTH
        MOTHER OF MEN AND OF
  THE BLESSED GODS
  YOU NOURISH ALL
  YOU GIVE ALL
  YOU BRING ALL TO FRUITION AND
  YOU DESTROY ALL"
  from "The Orphic Hymns" per
  Missoula Montana Scholars Press 1977
  biol> LIFE ORGANIZES CHAOS or THINGS thus it
        DECREASES ENTROPY thus finding
  any spot with DIMINISHED ENTROPY may be
  a sign of LIFE
  LOVESTOCK POSTULATES THAT EARTH
  akin to ORGANISMS IS A SOURCE OF HOMEOSTATIS
  notably SALINITY OF OCEANS or
          ATMOSPHERIC LEVELS OF OXYGEN
  biol> only recently DARWINISTS and followers of
        Richard DAWKINS [#] author of "SELFISH GENE"
  STARTED ACCEPTING GAIA AS AN OVERARCHING IDEA
  sc> FEW IDEAS OF SUCH SCOPE AND IMPLICATION
      HAVE EMERGED SINCE DARWIN
  James LOVESTOCK [#] IS THE GENIUS WHO MADE MANY
  FUNDAMENTAL AND CRITICAL SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
  AMONG THEM THE DISCOVERY OF THE
  ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTOR MAKING THE DETECTION OF
  MINUTE CONTAMINANTS POSSIBLE
  lit+ LOVESTOCK POINTED OUT            sug> PARADOX
       THAT WITH KNOWLEDGE
  THE UNKNOWN GROWS LARGER  NOT SMALLER
  lit+ LOVESTOCK said
       (Report in The Times Sunday September 2000)
       " IT IS COMFORTING TO THINK THAT
  I AM PART OF HER (GAIA)
  TO KNOW THAT MY DESTINY IS
  TO MERBE WITH THE CHEMISTRY OF OUR
  LIVING PLANET"
  lit+ LOVESTOCK CREATED A POST HUMANIST VIEW OF
       THE EARTH that is
  CONCEIVE EARTH AS A BIOLOGIC
  LIVING ENTITY which he named after GAIA
  hx> LOVESTOCK ELECTRONIC CAPTURING DEVICE
      SHOWED THAT DDT WAS PRESENT IN THE REMOTEST
  CORNERS OF THE EARTH INCLUDING ANTARCTICA
  IT LED TO THE PUBLICATION OF "SILENT SPRING" AND
  THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT THAT INDUCED THE
  THE BANNING OF DDT and DECADES LATER
  THE FINDING OF CLORO FLUORO CARBONS being the cause of
  the depletion of the OZONE LAYER and GLOBAL WORMING
  cont> see> GEA