entirely accepted it) but [James] Lovelock developed it into his theory about the nature of our own planet. He remembers "that enthralling eureka moment 44 years ago . . . when I saw with my mind's eye our planet as something possibly unique in the universe, something alive". Lovelock realised that the activities of life itself maintained the equilibrium of the Earth's key life-preserving areas, such as temperature and the salinity of the sea, by creating vast feedback systems.
from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Shockwaves are the stock in trade of this father of the apocalypse
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