I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

The Tone is the Message.

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.