Quotes from Greta Thunburg

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes - it always does - so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

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.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

I really miss having a routine because now I've been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I mean, people aren't continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don't want to. We aren't destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I write all of my own speeches.

Social media can be very effective in creating movements. In the beginning, that is how I first got attention.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone - that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn't do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power... because it's obvious that it's them I'm criticizing, but they can't show that in front of the cameras. It's quite funny sometimes.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

We can't just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don't want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

By stopping flying, you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.