Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

I have crushes on women all the time.

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.