"And Gaia, the “living planet” has to be recognized as a “being,” and not assimilated into a sum of processes, in the same sense that we recognize that a 45 rat, for example, is a being: it is not just endowed with a his-
tory but with its own regime of activity and sensitivity, resulting
from the manner in which the processes that constitute it are
coupled with one another in multiple and entangled manners, the variation of one having multiple repercussions that affect the others."