No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

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)

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.

I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.

I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.