Project: A large oratorio-like composition, using vocal soloists and chorus, with orchestra, in a setting of texts by James Lovelock, Loren Eiseley and Lewis Thomas. James Lovelock is the inventor of the so-called 'Gaia hypothesis' which states that the Earth is itself a living organism. The work will employ the actual scientific texts of Lovelock, which explain the concept through several different means, such as a thermodynamic analysis of the Earth's atmosphere. It will also include text by Lovelock which deals with the broader implications of his findings, which are beginning to take hold as established science. These implications involve, of course, such things as the way human beings should interact with the surrounding environment. Interlaced with the selections from Lovelock's writings will be selections from Loren Eiseley, which deal with the history of our understanding of life from the time of Hutton through Darwin and which make pointed connections to the modern story of Lovelock. James Hutton, the father of geology, was the first western scientist who believed that the Earth was a living organism, and our understanding of the mechanics of Darwinian selection will be greatly affected by the work of James Lovelock, if his theory turns out to be correct.