"The cherries cooked. They were on the tree and they cooked. I've lost crops to frost. I've lost crops to wind. I have never lost a crop to heat."

"They come in with second-degree burns on their palms, their knees, their stomachs. From falling on the sidewalk. It looks like they grabbed a hot pan off the stove."

"My father tapped in March. His father tapped in March. I was out here in January this year. The sap doesn't wait for you to be ready."

"Every storm is the worst storm now. I've been climbing poles eighteen years. The damage used to make sense. You could see where the wind came through. Now it's everything at once and nothing looks like what it should."

"The kids get on the bus and their backpacks are hot to the touch. The metal on the seatbelt buckles burns them. In October. I've been driving this route eleven years."

"I'm selling cows I spent twenty years building up. There's no grass. There's no water. There's nothing to do but sell them and watch the trucks leave."

"The planting window used to be a window. Now it's a crack. You get two decent days and then it's underwater."

"Had to call every client on the books and tell them we can't go out. River's closed. Water's too warm, the trout can't take it. I've been guiding this stretch thirty years. Never made that call before."

"I have not personally seen a fire grow so fast in such a short amount of time."

"We're hauling up black sea bass in the traps. Ten years ago you wouldn't find one north of the Cape."

"Season was supposed to open December first. They pushed it to January, then February. Water's too warm. The toxins won't clear. You just sit at the dock and wait for a phone call."

"Used to be I'd fire up the systems in May, shut them down in October. Now I'm running calls in March and the compressors don't get a rest till Thanksgiving. The equipment wasn't built for this many hours."

"I know what I— I know what looks right to me. It's not right. Nothing about this is right."

"We moved practice to five-thirty in the morning. By eight o'clock it's dangerous. These are sixteen-year-old kids."

"Visitors ask about the glaciers. I show them where they were. That's most of the job now. Showing people where things used to be."