A quote from Big Magic
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A quote from Big Magic
‘Just like how Goldilocks liked her porridge. And two billion planets in the Goldilocks zone is a lot. It would, rationally, be far harder to believe we are the only one in two billion and it…’
Matt Haig • The Life Impossible
Gaia, in all her symbiogenetic glory, is inherently expansive, subtle, aesthetic, ancient, and exquisitely resilient. No planetoid collisions or nuclear explosions have ever threatened Gaia as a whole. So far the only way in which we humans prove our dominance is by expansion. We remain brazen, crass, and recent, even as we become more numerous.
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"According to me, there's a decent chance that we live at the very beginning of the tiny sliver of time during which the galaxy goes from nearly lifeless to largely populated. That out of a staggering number of persons who will ever exist, we're among the first. And that out of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, ours will produce the... See more
Holden Karnofsky • All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
‘Just like how Goldilocks liked her porridge. And two billion planets in the Goldilocks zone is a lot. It would, rationally, be far harder to believe we are the only one in two billion and it…’
Matt Haig • The Life Impossible
The Gaia Theory sees planets, at least the Earth, as more than just balls of rocks and mud. They don’t think that Earth has life on it. They theorize that Earth is life itself — it’s living. The Gaia theory states that living things and all their non-living and inorganic surroundings evolve together as a single complex living organism. This
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