James Lovelock Quotes

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

As a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources—one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

There probably were floods when our land was newly settled but before we cut our trees so recklessly they were not so serious. If we go to the headwaters of our rivers and we will find the cause and the results which follow in the wake of man's destructive ignorance.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.