In Animate Earth, Stephan Harding explores how Gaian science can help humans to develop a sense of connectedness with the “more-than-human” world. His work is based on a careful integration of rational scientific analysis with human intuition, sensing and feeling—a vitally important task at this time of severe ecological and climate crisis. Animate Earth argues that humans need to establish a right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which they are indissolubly embedded–and to which, in the final analysis, humans are all accountable. The book inspires the reader to connect with a profound sense of the intrinsic value of the Earth, and to discover what it means to live as harmoniously as possible within a sentient creature of planetary proportions.