There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. - James Lovelock
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
- 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
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. - James Lovelock
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. - James Lovelock
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. - James Lovelock
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. - James Lovelock
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
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