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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."
Explore more quotes by James Lovelock
"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."
"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"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."
"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."
"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."
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