James Lovelock Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

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

  James Lovelock

  Inspirational, Dance, Evolution

  "Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist". Book by James Lovelock, Oxford University Press, 2000.

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

  James Lovelock

  Shapes, Favors, Environment

• We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

  James Lovelock

  War, Issues, Feelings

• There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

  James Lovelock

  Life, Rocks, Cells

  James Lovelock (2000). “The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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