I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.

Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

To dream of love & wake up beside your lover is divinity itself

I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life because with every choice I make, I learn something new.

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.