Kim Stanley Robinson

“There's no such thing as 'away'. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.”

“We are living in a science fiction novel that we are all writing together.”

“The Anthropocene is the new reality, and we are its unwilling authors.”

“The sublime is a feeling of being overwhelmed by the bigness of things.”

“The future is not a destination, but a direction.”

“The world is a work in progress, and we are its co-creators.”

“Science fiction is the realism of our time.”

“Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.”

“Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.”

“History is a wave that moves through time.”

“The first rule of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”

“Work is the thing that we do to survive. But it should also be the thing that we do to live.”

“We are all utopians. We all have a vision of a better world.”

“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for all political and social struggles.”

“Science is the only way we have to find out what is actually happening. It is the only way to know what is true.”

“The novel is a public dream.”

“To be a scientist is to be a child again, to be curious and to ask questions.”

“The point of utopian fiction is to show that things can be different.”

“Wilderness is not a place, but a quality.”

“Memory is a story we tell ourselves.”