James E. Lovelock: Planet

James E. Lovelock is independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on planet.
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“Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog.”

James E. Lovelock

"The Man Who Named the World" (1990)

Life , Dogs , Cats

“Our planet… consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb…Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”

James E. Lovelock

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

Star

“We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.”

James E. Lovelock

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)

Life , Optimism

“If there were a billion people living on the planet, we could do whatever we please. But there are nearly seven billion. At this scale, life as we know it today is not sustainable.”

James E. Lovelock

How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate (2010) as quoted by Jeff Goodell

Life , People