The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

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)

instinct leads me to another flow

Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.