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Let's make hay while it lasts.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

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

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

James Lovelock