The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if that is… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
