the idea that the Earth is alive might be as old as Humanity itself and it was given the name Gaia by ancient Greeks who looked at the Earth as one of the most powerful goddesses in their mythology in the 1790s James Hutton the father of geology referred to Earth as a super organism with multiple components interacting to maintain stability similarly to how a Body Works which is why he compared Earth's nutrient Cycles to the human circulatory systems a great example of this is how every year strong winds over Sahara Desert pick up mineral Rich dust
into the atmosphere that crosses the Atlantic and is dropped into the Amazon rainforest feeding it with the essential nutrients it needs to survive it also takes in energy from the Sun and its core and redistributes it throughout its ecosystems where environments influence life and life influences environments and while the Earth might not be alive in the sense that a human or a plant is it is geologically alive with moving tectonic plates volcanic activity and a molten core that generates our magnetic field and if it wasn't alive in that sense then neither would we be
