“Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.”

Source: Mindbridge (1976), Chapter 8 “Geoformy 1” (p. 33)

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