"Gaianist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, A. M. Mannion, S. R. Bowlby, editors, Environmental Issues in the 1990s, Wiley, page 166",
          "text": "Gaianists derive their ideas from the recent theory of James Lovelock, who argues that the biosphere operates as if it were a single living entity which he calls Gaia, after the Greek Goddess of the earth (Chapter 1).",
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          "ref": "1993, David Pepper, Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice, Routledge, published 2003",
          "text": "Lovelock’s hypothesis does not attribute intelligence to Gaia. But many Gaianists do: particularly deep ecologists and New Agers.",
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          "ref": "2000, Martin Phillips, Tim Mighall, Society and Exploitation Through Nature, London, New York, N.Y.: Prentice Hall, page 30",
          "text": "Rather than talk of increasing control of nature, deep ecologists and Gaianists, for example, warn of the ‘revenge of nature’, a notion that has also started to appear in some recent environmental histories such as that of Murphy (1994).",
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        "An adherent of Gaianism."
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