James Lovelock

“I think the green movement has become a religion, and a rather nasty one at that.”

“The Earth is a living organism and we are part of it.”

“Any species that overpopulates will self-destruct.”

“We have to get away from the simplistic idea that we can manage the planet. We can't.”

“Life is a planetary-scale phenomenon. There is not a single organism that is not connected to every other organism.”

“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on Earth and whatever our mistakes, we are the most promising species.”

“The major threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

“It is a mistake to think that we can manage the Earth. We can only manage ourselves.”

“The one thing that is clear is that we have only one planet. There is no plan B.”

“The whole of the Earth, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the surface rock and all of life, is a self-regulating system that I call Gaia.”

“We are now in a new war, a war against the Earth. And the Earth is fighting back.”

“We are treating the planet as if it were a business in liquidation.”

“Our intelligence is not a gift, it is a responsibility.”