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

- James Lovelock

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

- James Lovelock

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

- James Lovelock

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

- James Lovelock

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.

- James Lovelock

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity cap…

- James Lovelock

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

- James Lovelock

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

- James Lovelock

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it…

- James Lovelock