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1. "Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest." ~ James Lovelock
2. "If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now." ~ James Lovelock
3. "An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it." ~ James Lovelock
4. "Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes." ~ James Lovelock
5. "Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive." ~ James Lovelock
6. "Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia." ~ James Lovelock
7. "The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms." ~ James Lovelock
8. "Let's make hay while it lasts." ~ James Lovelock
9. "A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time." ~ James Lovelock
10. "Civilization in its present form hasn't got long." ~ James Lovelock
11. "Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long." ~ James Lovelock
12. "Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year." ~ James Lovelock
13. "One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil." ~ James Lovelock
14. "Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem." ~ James Lovelock
15. "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty." ~ James Lovelock
16. "Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do." ~ James Lovelock
17. "Science always uses metaphor." ~ James Lovelock
18. "So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel." ~ James Lovelock
19. "The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now." ~ James Lovelock
20. "We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA." ~ James Lovelock

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