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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the veins of its waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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