James Balog Time Quotations

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.