When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

...She says with that mistyfar-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.