There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.

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.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.