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Top 15 Amory Lovins Quotes (2025 Update)

Amory Lovins Quote: “Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they’re applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.”

1. “Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they’re applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “We’ve got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.”

2. “We’ve got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.”

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

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Amory Lovins Quote: “The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.”

4. “The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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!”

7. “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

Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.”

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

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?”

12. “What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.”

13. “Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.”

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

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Amory Lovins Quote: “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.”

19. “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

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