For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

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)

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

Let go of your all fears, be strong.

Wanting to believe something is powerful

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Reading is good, action is better.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.