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50 quotes by James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist who lives in Dorset, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling the interconnections of the chemical and physical environment.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

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I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

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We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

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The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

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For each of our actions there are only consequences.

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Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

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Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the... →

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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

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One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

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