James E. Lovelock: Quotes about life

James E. Lovelock is independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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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

“The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush hour traffic.”

James E. Lovelock

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

Life , History , Optimism , Chance

“In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.”

James E. Lovelock

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

Life , Fashion , Nature , Forgetting

“Life has to take charge of its environment and evolve with it.”

James E. Lovelock

"The Man Who Named the World" (1990)

Life

“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