1. Ursula Goodenough discusses the emergence of meaning with the very first cell in her 1994 “The religious dimensions of the biological narrative,” Zygon 29: 603–18.
2. Quotation by Holmes Rolston III in his 1994 Conoer’inq Natural Vague (New York: Columbia University Press), p. 168.
3. Quotation by James E. Lovelock in his 1979 Cria: A Neto Look at Life on Earth (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 10.
4. For a discussion of the “breathing of the biosphere,” see Tyler Volk, 1997 Gala: Body: Toward a Phy, rázlogy af Earth (New York: Copernicus), chap. 1.
5. Quotations by Bryan Appleyard in his 1992 Underotandizg the Predent: Science and the Soul of /Modern Man (New York: Doubleday), pp. 76, 101–107.