Skip to content

Quotes from The Man Who Named the World — James Lovelock

1919–2022 England

← All quotes by James Lovelock

3 quotes

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

The Man Who Named the World (1990)

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.

The Man Who Named the World (1990)

Bacteria … have been here for three and a half billion years, and without them we have no chance whatsoever of survival. Humans are something very recent, like the froth on top of a glass of beer.

The Man Who Named the World (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Lovelock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.