I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

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