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I come from several generations of New England geologists. From age six I intended to be one myself, and that guided me through school until, as an underclassman at Harvard, I began to question the...voir plusI come from several generations of New England geologists. From age six I intended to be one myself, and that guided me through school until, as an underclassman at Harvard, I began to question the scientific approach. I found something indefinably chilling in the purely intellectual approach. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand, seemed to be intellectually over-simplified and dogmatic. After college I became an artist, and carved gems for about 10 years, until turning to antique restoration for steadier income.I have come to a new proposition that Earth has identity and makes decisions. Reading James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and the work of Lynn Margulis on symbiotic evolution has led me, in the last 20 years, through an odyssey of widely separated scientific specialties, searching for glimpses of the greater systems that we inhabit. Eventually the pieces knit together to reveal a living being. Turning this into a narrative, along with over a hundred illustrations, many of which come from my artistic craft, has resulted in the book: "Who Is the Earth?"voir moins