Despondent Quote by Thabo Mbeki

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Tackling climate change is not a luxury for the good times: for good and bad times it has become a necessity - but necessity…

— Ed Davey

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

— KT Tunstall

“Nevertheless, the obvious and overwhelming evidence of the damage we are causing is now increasingly impossible for reasonable people to ignore. It is widely…

— Al Gore

The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only…

— Pope Francis

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

— Albert Camus

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live…

— Samuel Johnson

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

— O. Henry

We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.

— Sadiq Khan

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

— Clive James