The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.

When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.