Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.
. . . 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.