I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.