The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.