Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life. - Barbara Kingsolver

I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

Even the most recalcitrant climate scientists agree now, the place is heating up. pretty much every one of the lot. Unless some other outcome is written on the subject line of his paycheck. [...] If you were here to get information, Tina, you would not be standing in my laboratory telling me what scientists think.

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.