We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

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.

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

So many things people say may seem so good and right

Don’t be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don’t stop dreaming.

The best gift that we could give to our great nation is to prepare our younger generations to be fit enough to positively take our country to greater heights.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.