I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we’re going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‚Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,‘ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‚Well let’s stop it!‘

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I became a beach bum.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

London is a roost for every bird.

Touring is hard on the body.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.