Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

Lewis Thomas

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Topic

The earth

Author

Lewis Thomas

Source

The World's Biggest Membrane

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Physician Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. "The World's Biggest Membrane." The New England Journal of Medicine, 13 Sept. 1973.

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Edward N. Lorenz
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.