It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.

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)

Stress steals the beauty from life.

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.