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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
James Lovelock
Life
Earth
You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
James Lovelock
Future
Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock
Science
Metaphor
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.
James Lovelock
Chance
Earth
Exploration
Space
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
James Lovelock
War
Earth
Humanity
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
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
Earth
Living
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
James Lovelock
Actions
Consequences
Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
James Lovelock
Will
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
Environment
Evolution
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
James Lovelock
America
Global warming
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
James Lovelock
Being
End
World
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
James Lovelock
Civilization
Present
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
James Lovelock
America
Aspirations
Revolution
Will
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.
James Lovelock
Climate
State