Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

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.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

You can't eat compliments.

I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.

And I love what I do and I love skating.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.