{"quotes":[{"text":"I had always heard rumors of her, Nanook thought, she who can control the wind, the water, the earth, and fire ... She who can talk to time. But those were old myths of a woman who lived many thousands of years ago, the first daughter of the Earth. There is a prophecy that she will return again, during the end times -- every religion has someone like that, someone to wait for and put your faith in, but my culture had mostly covered up her existence. We had a god of the sea, a god of the land, a god of the air, a god of fire, but no one who could control all of the elements. We spoke, only in whispers, of the ancient bloodline -- the descendents of the Great Mother. Too many superstitious minds, too many men concerned only with their own power and position, had heard these whispers in the past and taken gruesome steps to erase the descendents. The lineage was said to be broken, the blood of the Great Mother spilled for the last time.","author":"Sarah Warden","tags":["gaia","paranormal-romance","vampire","werewolves","witches","young-adult-fiction"],"id":3634,"author_id":"Sarah+Warden"},{"text":"I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into you. I drew you down from the trees and I lifted you onto your feet. I freed your hands to become your tools so that you would cradle me in my old age, but you have turned on me. My strongest warrior for life, you have been transformed into an insatiable messenger of death. Only a few of my children are still listening when I howl to them, crying in the night, sending the oceans in great surges to cleanse my land -- to cleanse, and to warn you who no longer listen. I WILL BE HEARD.","author":"Sarah Warden","tags":["dystopian-fiction","earth","earth-day","gaia","global-warming","vampire-romance","vampire-series","witches"],"id":9257,"author_id":"Sarah+Warden"},{"text":"When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.","author":"Charles Eisenstein","tags":["change","charles-eisenstein","ecology","economics","gaia","gift-giving","gifts","money","nature","philosophy","social-change","the-earth"],"id":75687,"author_id":"Charles+Eisenstein"},{"text":"If dominating and destructive relations to the earth are interrelated with gender, class, and racial domination, then a healed relation to the earth cannot come about simply through technological 'fixes'. It demands a social reordering to bring about just and loving interrelationship between men and women, between races and nations, between groups presently stratified into social classes, manifest in great disparities of access to the means of life. In short, it demands that we must speak of eco-justice, and not simply of domination of the earth as though that happened unrelated to social domination.","author":"Rosemary Radford Ruether","tags":["eco-justice","ecofeminism","feminism","gaia"],"id":106426,"author_id":"Rosemary+Radford+Ruether"},{"text":"The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.","author":"Chris d'Lacey","tags":["earth","gaia","life","nature"],"id":127188,"author_id":"Chris+d%27Lacey"},{"text":"Hello, Darkness,' Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine.'Nemesis,' Gaia said.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["caine","darkness","gaia","gaiaphage","gone","gone-series","light","michael-grant","nemesis"],"id":211359,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"No one in hundreds of years has had that kind of power -- the power to control the elements. Not since the slaughter of the 1600's ... She has saved her greatest warrior for the moment when you are most needed. It is you, Isi, not us; you are the one destined to save the planet. We boys are just window dressing while you are the last knight of the Earth, pulled from her core and given from her heart to save us all. Haven't you noticed it? The flowers turn their faces to you, as if you were the sun. The most timid and previously abused bird curls up in your arms, as if it were her most natural place. When you are sad, the sky shares your sorrow and darkens in empathy. When you are happy, the moon throws herself into eclipse and the stars themselves wink at you to celebrate your joy. You are her daughter, the daughter of Earth, and she smiles when she sees you.","author":"Sarah Warden","tags":["earth","earth-day","gaia","love","vampire-romance","vampire-series","witches"],"id":240246,"author_id":"Sarah+Warden"},{"text":"The multiplicity of human identity is not just a spiritual principle, it’s a biological fact—a basic ecological reality. ... Only 10% of the cells in your body belong to you. The rest are the cells of bacteria and microorganisms that call your body home, and without these symbionts living on and within your physical self, you would be unable to digest and process the nutrients necessary to keep you alive. Your physical body is teeming with a microscopic diversity of life that rivals a rainforest. The insight of the Gaia Theory—that “the Earth system behaves as a single self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components”—is as much a statement about our own physical bodies as it is about the planet. If we imagine the Earth as the body of a goddess, we can also imagine our own bodies as a sacred home to an ecologically complex and diverse array of microscopic life.' -- Alison Leigh Lilly, 'Naming the Water: Human and Deity Identity from an Earth-Centered Perspective.","author":"John Halstead","tags":["body","earth","gaia","gaia-theory","rainforest","symbiosis"],"id":264904,"author_id":"John+Halstead"},{"text":"The Earth created magic to protect the magic that is the Earth.","author":"Sarah Warden","tags":["earth","gaia","magic","paranormal-fiction","vampires","witches"],"id":266724,"author_id":"Sarah+Warden"},{"text":"Human history is a Gaian dream.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["dream","gaia","history","human"],"id":304296,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}