An important work of Currier's is the oratorio Gaian Variations, his largest. As Currier was in the middle of working on his score, more than 1,000 scientists from over 100 countries came together under the auspices of the United Nations to sign a Declaration which states at the outset,"The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system." The primary assertion of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in what they had initially called the Gaia hypothesis - now Gaia Theory - had gradually become accepted wisdom, despite the relentless criticism of figures like neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins. Gaian Variations is a work that celebrates and helps to communicate Gaia Theory.