Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.