Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.