James Lovelock Quotes

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

Create, Forest, Desert

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

Environmental, Food, Times

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

Power, Against, Surprise

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

Life, Earth, Changes

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

Life, Dance, Material

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

Time, Live, Living

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

Clever, Virus, Host

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
James Lovelock

Long, Present, Hasn

Let's make hay while it lasts.
James Lovelock

While, Lasts, Hay

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

Nature, Leave, Survive

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.
James Lovelock

Power, Put, Nuclear

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

History, Bad, Capable

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

Revolution, America, Knows

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
James Lovelock

America, Problem, Global

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

Long, Place, Whole

For each of our actions there are only consequences.
James Lovelock

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
James Lovelock

Change, Happen, Year

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

May, Happened, Anyway

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

Religion, God, Scientist

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
James Lovelock

Happen, Though, Pessimist

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
James Lovelock

Freedom, Personal, Price

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
James Lovelock

War, America, Cold

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.
James Lovelock

Mistakes, Another, Won

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

Worth, Million, Oil

Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock

Science, Metaphor, Uses

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: July 26, 1919

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