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

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

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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.

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?

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.