Top 50 Quotes by James Lovelock

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

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

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

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

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

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 coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

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.

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 looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

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

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