You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

I'm a wild lady. Not.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.