There is much more than science in this book ... This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a personal and at a global level * Sunday Times * His 'Gaia hypothesis' is certainly heroic, with all the illusion-busting potential of Gallileo's or Einstein's theories * Independent * The scientist who, more than any other alive today, has changed the way we think of the earth and our place on it -- John Gray * New Statesman * Daring, exciting, original * Scientific American * Lovelock writes beautifully ... Only a genius thinks of the obvious, and Lovelock deserves to be described as a genius * New Scientist * The breath-taking sweep of his central idea - that the earth is a living, self-regulating organism - poses the most dramatic challenge to scientists, politicians, and environmentalists. -- Jonathon Porritt Lovelock will go down in history as the scientist who changed our view of the Earth -- John Gray a man as inventive and ingenious as he is lively and unorthodox * Scientific American *
