Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

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.

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.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

You act like the sorcerers are invading the continent for the sole joy of hunting me down and lobbing me off of tall objects.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.