“And us? Our role on the planet, he’s now sure, was to “convert sunlight into information” – to bring knowledge, to make those machines and make sense of it all.“

James Lovelock interviewed by Kate Mossman in the New Statesman, 31 July 2019

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2019/07/james-lovelock-100-my-life-has-been-one-mass-visions