We

Ultimately we must be saved by hope, faith, love, and forgiveness.
--Reinhold Neibuhr [10.19.00]

Obsessed

Every human should be at least partially obsessed with climate change.
--David Hallerman

Heart

Changing one disastrous energy source for a slightly less disastrous one is not progress. Exporting our emissions overseas is not reducing our emission. Creative accounting will not help us. In fact, it's the very heart of the problem.
--Greta Thunberg

Urgency

You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that, because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that I refuse to believe.
--Greta Thunberg

Crisis

This is not primarily an opportunity to create new green jobs, new businesses, or green economic growth. This is above all an emergency, and not just any emergency. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
--Greta Thunberg

Physics

The climate and ecological crisis is beyond party politics. And our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy now is physics. And we can not make "deals" with physics.
--Greta Thunberg

Empathy

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.
--Samantha Power

Stuck

The soul wants to be attached, involved, and even stuck, because it is through such intimacy that it is nourished, initiated, and deepened.
--Thomas Moore [10.13.03]

Afraid

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
--Bertolt Brecht

Language

Word-work is sublime...because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference--the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
--Toni Morrison [05.03.12]

Attend

My experience is what I agree to attend to.
--William James [11.12.99]

Stimulate

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
--Herbie Hancock

Rules

My mother asked me, "Why do you always take pictures of poor people?" It wasn't true, but my sympathies were with people who struggled. There was also my mistrust of people who made the rules.
--Robert Frank

Reply

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
--Leonard Bernstein [12.24.03]

Change

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change--and we all instinctively avoid it.
--E.B. White [10.10.05]

Entire

Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Voice

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie
--W. H. Auden

Assaults

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
--John Maynard Keynes [11.18.08]

Progress

Ethical progress is unlikely when we do only what we are told.
--George Monbiot

Use

What we use is not ours simply because we use it.
--Erich Fromm