Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

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

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.