Amory Lovins Quotes

#1. Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

Vandana Shiva

#2. You build walls to fortify your heart,
and blame on others for your loneliness.

Toba Beta

#3. Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.

Amory Lovins

#4. Dear Adam,
"Flying high is marvelous, staying on the ground is great. What is really tasteless is staying in between."
Love Daddy

Sameh Elsayed

#5. The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

Amory Lovins

#6. Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Amory Lovins

#7. If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Amory Lovins

#8. Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Amory Lovins

#9. A conversation with her is a special pleasure because there are no words that are not preceded by thoughts.

Irin Carmon

#10. Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Amory Lovins

#11. I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Brendon Urie

#12. God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Mencia

#13. I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

Amory Lovins

#14. Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Amory Lovins

#15. Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

David Cottrell

#16. We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Amory Lovins

#17. We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Amory Lovins

#18. Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.

Amory Lovins

#19. The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

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#20. By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

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#21. Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.

Amory Lovins

#22. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

#23. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

Amory Lovins

#24. I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Laura Vandervoort

#25. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Amory Lovins

#26. I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

Amory Lovins

#27. Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Amory Lovins

#28. I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Amory Lovins

#29. If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

Amory Lovins

#30. What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Amory Lovins

#31. Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

Amory Lovins

#32. Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

Amory Lovins

#33. A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy ... with a simple payback under 16 months.

Amory Lovins

#34. Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Amory Lovins

#35. The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

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#36. Like flowers, people only reach their highest potential when their talents bloom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Amory Lovins

#38. Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

Marcel Proust