'Bacteria are, and always have been,

the most important living things'

 

The words for this song come from James Lovelock's book

'Gaia : the Practical Science of Planetary Medicine' (p.99)

 

with thanks to:

Lynn Margulis Film Archive

The Margulis Estate

John Feldman and Hummingbird Films

for extracts from 'Symbiotic Earth'

Sonia Levy 

"In Gaia we are just another species,
neither the owners nor the stewards of

this planet.

Our future depends much more upon a
right relationship with Gaia than with the
never ending drama of human interest."

James Lovelock

'The Ages of Gaia'