James Lovelock Quotes & Sayings
51 most famous James Lovelock quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”
“I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.”
“We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.”
“Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.”
“The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.”
“There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.”
“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”
“One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.”
“So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.”
“If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.”
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