"The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy."

"We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death."

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."

"If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference."

"I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues."

"The program helps me financially, and it's good for the environment; plus, I have clean water and my cows are kept out of the creek."

"Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren’t. Surround yourself with positive people and environments."

"Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person."

"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

"It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn."

"There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle."

"Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment."

"You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it."

"Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special."

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement."

"Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration."

"Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars."

"I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today."

"My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming."

"I think the climate has been changing for billions of years."