Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Welcome back, Jem.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.