TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

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)

An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

What we put into the atmosphere in terms of burning fuel is unprecedented.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.