Explore Quotes by James Lovelock

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

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

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

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

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

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

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

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

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.