The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

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)

Have you ever paused to be Grateful? For eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, tongue to taste, hands to feel, head to think and heart to love?

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.