How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.