The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

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!‘

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

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 think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

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.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.