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"Without the wave like energy transfer created through quantum coherence, the efficient kind of photosynthesis that had allowed life to get started on this planet could not have taken place; there would not be life on earth. Complex organisms could not have evolved and could not function in the absence of the nonlocal forms of coherence. The human body, for example, consists of 1014 (100,000,000,000,000) cells, and each cell produces 10,000 bioelectrochemical reactions every second. These all need to be quasi-instantly and dependably correlated." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Lynn Margulis and of all life on earth In declaring war on Dorian Sagan, What Is Life? them we declared war on the underlying living structure of the planet—on all life-forms we can see—on ourselves. Clearly, the assumptions embedded in the germ theory of disease carried hidden impacts. Accepting that theory as truth has led to behaviors—industrial, social, and environmental—that are now being recognized as having serious long-term impacts. But Pasteur's germ theory was not the only one; there were many competing schools of thought at the time." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.) "Unknowing, we check them off the list of life on Earth's ark. Hirschfeldia rostrata—Yemen Iberis semperflorens—Italy Iti lacustris—New Zealand Xylosma cordatum—Ecuador Xylosma grossecrenatum—New Caledonia Xylosma nitida—Jamaica Two-thirds of the evolutionary ancestors of our food crops are endangered. Viruses and transposons intermixed the wild and domesticated genes throughout the past ten thousand years so that our food plants remained strong. But the genes are going now, they are going now, they are . . ." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"You do need the sun—there is no life on earth without it. But you're not choosing between no sun and all the sun you want. Regular intermittent exposure year round allows you to build up some melanin, which will buffer you from overexposure. Now-and-then sun exposure raises your vitamin D levels. Also, your skin type dictates how much sun you can tolerate. Avoid sunburns and think of sunscreen as a tool that helps to prevent sunburns and can reduce sun damage. The charts in chapter 5 will show you how to maximize sun exposure and vitamin D and minimize risk." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Free radicals have existed since the beginning of life on earth. Why would they now lead to cancer in one out of every two people when just 100 years ago only 1 in 8,000 people suffered the same fate? Did free radicals just become a lot more "vicious" in the past 100 years, ever so eager to oxidize us to death? The answer is a resounding "no." Free radicals only oxidize and destroy what is already weak and potentially damaging to the body." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Following a brief battle with the disease, he died—just as he believed he would—before reaching the 76-year mark of life on earth. There are numerous case histories that suggest that the power of a belief can be "inherited" if it's accepted and held by others. The studies show that beliefs can even be passed on from one generation to the next. If they're positive and life affirming, the ability to perpetuate them for many generations is a good thing." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Earth's species in both beneficial and destructive ways and we seek to promote lifestyles that lead to social justice, sustainability, and ecological security for all the life on earth and in so doing, we live with conscious intent; ?" - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In the words of the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "On any possible, reasonable, or fair criterion, bacteria are, and always have been, rhe dominant form of life on earth. "3 There is something unavoidably atbitrary about choosing the beginning of the path that connects Earth's first living thing with Rome's last great emperor . . . assuming, that is, that the path itself isn't just a literary caprice." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "At a moment in history that is practically last week by bacterial standards, somewhere between 570 to 800 million years ago, life on earth got complicated. An enduring image from classical mythology is the tale of the Titans, earth's first rulers, whose king, Cronos, ate his own children. Like Cronos, Earth's first life form was about to evolve its future larder. That planet that they occupied had been utterly made over by the activities of bacterial and single-celled eukaryotic life." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"We now know that atmospheric pollutants in minute concentrations can inadvertently pose hazards to the life on earth. Compared to most atmospheric pollutants, psychiatrically induced brain pollutants are highly concentrated and they are specifically tailored to disrupt normal functions. Mounting laboratory evidence—reviewed in more detail in my medical book, Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (2008)—indicates that psychiatric drugs can cause permanent brain dysfunction and damage." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"As a result the web of life on earth has distinct systemic properties. All elements are related to all others, and changes in one propagate at some level throughout the whole system. The biosphere as a whole is a natural system, but without further specification it is still too vast to permit the derivation of practical codes of moral behavior. We can, however, make further distinctions as regard sub-biospheric systems. Some of these systems are natural systems, and others are not. Those entities that do not owe their existence to human volition are natural systems." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"All are an abdication of personal responsibility for life on earth (including, of course, one's own life). Value- and ethic-free lifestyles are as aberrant in science as in society. —Bill Mollison, Permaculture grasping of gestalts of whole-system functioning. Without the natural emergence of biophilia and biognosis it is unlikely that our species will be able to continue to successfully inhabit Earth. Without an activated capacity for empathy with other living things we risk becoming ever more disruptive of the ecosystem functioning of the planet." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"In the final count what is good for humans is good—with at the most a very few exceptions—for all life on earth. The Minimum Code Ensuring the dynamic equilibrium of the biosphere at a humanly favorable level requires a thorough restructuring of human relations to the environment, transforming them from the currently unsustainable to a long-term sustainable mode. It also requires the transformation of the institutions of human societies so they can coexist with each other and with nature productively and in peace." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"She also realized that all taxonomic classifications were incorrect and she corrected this error with her "Five Realm Taxonomy of Life," basically acknowledging that bacteria are the foundation of all life on earth. fungi plants animals protoctists bacteria Bacteria are, in essence, the primary life-form on Earth. They combined to form nucleated cells that then fused into more complex forms: plants, fungi, animals. Many of the free-living bacteria that blended together during symbiosis can still be found within us, within all animals and plants." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"Like the first life on earth, our own life starts as a single cell. This cell divides, becoming a simple colony, and folds in upon itself to form a simple tube, much as early multicellular organisms started off as simple "feeding tubes." After a few weeks, the growing embryo develops gills as if it were becoming a fish. Then it resembles a reptile, and a little later takes on some of the characteristics of smaller mammals. Even at week ten, it still has a tail. Scientists sum up these parallels in the phrase "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "One thing we do know is that the survival of life on earth depends on the rich diversity of species. How many more can be destroyed before the planet's biosystem collapses? A Warmer World The second price we have had to pay for fire has been a warming we did not intend: global warming. The principal waste product of fire is carbon dioxide. This is not in itself a dangerous gas; indeed, it is crucial to the life of plants, and, given time, the biosphere could absorb all the carbon dioxide that we produce." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "From it came all manner of inventions and an explosion of novelty unprecedented in the history of life on earth. Amplification of the Thumb One of our earliest inventions was agriculture. We began to irrigate the land, plant seeds, and store the harvest. Guaranteed a more reliable source of food, we were that much freer from the caprices of nature. We could ensure against floods or droughts, settle in one place, and build permanent shelters. We discovered that through selective breeding we could create new varieties of plants and animals." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "After several hundred million years, so much oxygen had accumulated in the atmosphere that it threatened life on earth. Nature's response was to exploit oxygen's destructive qualities and capture the energy released as oxygen reduced larger molecules into smaller components. This new process of obtaining energy—called respiration—was far more efficient than either fermentation or photosynthesis, and greatly expanded the range of resources at life's disposal." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"C Allow constantly rising emissions 650 ppm Threshold for elimination of most life on earth... Six degrees 5.1-5.8°C Allow very high emissions 800 ppm The table illustrates how hopelessly inconsistent current climate policies are - even of some major environmental groups. The European Union has mentioned (though not formally adopted) a 550 ppm target, whilst at the same time demanding that global temperature rise be kept below two degrees. In all likelihood, as the table shows, 550 ppm means four degrees plus runaway positive feedbacks." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"I will quote further because what he states in a neuro-philosophic way dovetails precisely with our clinical observations: "Already, the individual has recapitulated, while in the womb, the physical evolution of all life on earth. Now it is racing through the stages by which life evolved mentally."9 The stages are "from mindlessness to shadowy awareness to consciousness of the world, to consciousness of self."10 Each new level is an elaboration of the previous lower level until we arrive at full consciousness." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.) "Because the brainstem continues to develop for several months after birth, what happens to us emotionally during the few months of life on earth can affect our heart function, most of our survival mechanisms, and our brain development. When we discuss breathing difficulties and heart problems later in the book, we must think about the brainstem and the memories it holds. These ailments speak of preverbal trauma and therefore may dictate where we eventually will have to go in psychotherapy." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"DNA is a long multiunit molecule containing nature's digital code for life on earth. DNA has been referred to as the blueprint of life, as our chemical code, and as a language. The design of the organism and its molecular components emerge from the information (or language) stored in the DNA. The four main coding elements, or base units, on the DNA ladder are T, C, A, and G, or thymine, cytosine, adenine, and guanine. When these four coding elements are combined with phosphates and deoxyri-bose sugar into groups of three, they are called codons." - Margaret Ruby, The DNA of Healing: A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance (Get the book.)

"Later heart disease can begin its life before we begin our social life on earth. Love not only makes the world go round, it makes the brain function the way it was meant to. All this transpires during the critical period where experience will change the brain in numerous ways, often permanently. The only thing that is curative is to go deep down in the brain and relive the prototype—the basic personality set even before birth, the crucible for the later neurotic superstructure. No amount of fulfillment later on can replace an early deficit of love and caring." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Already - independently from any change in the world's climate - we are living through what biologists have termed the sixth mass extinction of life on earth (the fifth was the extinction of the dinosaurs and half of all other life at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary). Due to combined human pressures from habitat loss, hunting, pollution, resource use and the introduction of invasive species into new areas, natural species are already becoming extinct at a rate 100-1,000 times greater than the normal background rate of loss over evolutionary time." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "And judging by carbon isotope ratios in rocks spanning the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary, we are already about halfway to the kind of searing global heatwave that was experienced then by life on earth. The likely role of methane hydrates in causing this heatwave also offers another worrying lesson for humanity. Vast amounts of the same methane hydrates still sit, quietly biding their time, on subsea continental shelves around the world." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Clearly, the target we need to aim for depends on what level of risk we are prepared to accept - bearing in mind that failure means runaway global warming and the destruction of most of life on earth. Most of this discussion will sound complex and arcane to just about everyone except specialists in the subject. But it shouldn't. This is actually the key question currently facing humanity - far more important than terrorism, crime, healthcare, education or any of the other everyday concerns that fill up our newspapers and television screens." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"In fact, they may even superimpose upon us the frightening premonition that the future of life on earth is at stake. Yet the new world is just beginning. The abolishment of outdated principles of living that have kept mankind limited and fearful for centuries leaves behind a mess of scattered pieces of knowledge that no longer make any sense. The views, which I have presented in these last few chapters, are certainly not the final answer to the puzzle of health and illness. As a matter of fact, any viewpoint is a limitation, whereas our true potential is unlimited." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "If nature were not able to cure itself from disease, life on earth would have vanished millions of years ago. All the forms of vegetation, including the trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables, as well as all the animals and insects down to the smallest amoeba and bacteria, are equipped with highly sophisticated defense mechanisms to maintain their own and the planet's existence. Man's immune system is the most sophisticated among all species and can develop immunity to any invading organism." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Every time we drive a car, we're participating in the largest planetary experiment ever conducted—we're changing the climate, acidifying the oceans, melting the ice caps, and generally wreaking havoc with the very systems that support life on earth. That said, the same tools that are leading scientists to sound alarms are giving us a better understanding of how to begin tackling the problems. Not only do we know what is causing the climate crisis, but we know what to do about it. Not only do we have concrete evidence that it's real, we increasingly know what to expect locally." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "What that means, for those of us whom math makes sleepy, is that humans are using about 50 percent of all the life on earth —that about half of all the microbes, insects, plants, and mammals on the planet are being sucked into the systems that go to feed our needs. Think of every single living thing on the earth as a river. We're diverting half of that river to suit our needs, already." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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