Quotes About Change

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction.

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, if cows were a country, they would rank third in greenhouse gas emissions, after China and the United States.

She asked: "What can you promise?" He promised: "Things are about to be different.

He was caught somewhere between his mother's last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be

My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

No one motorist can cause a traffic jam. But no traffic jam can exist without individual motorists. We are stuck in traffic because we are the traffic. The ways we live our lives, the actions we take and don't take, can feed the systemic problems, and they can also change them...

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. OK, but this is not for me, and it will not be for Little Igor.

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing, though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be a room to bury anyone anymore?

We believe that the environmental crisis is caused by large outside forces and therefore can be solved only by large outside forces. But recognizing that we are responsible for the problem is the beginning of taking responsibility for the solution.

I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone

So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other?

I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

Isn't it weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.

Every year, wildfires in California create more greenhouse gas emissions than the state's progressive environmental policies save.

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.