182 Quotes by Bill McKibben

Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

The snow was coming down so hard. It looked like the flakes were hurrying to get out of the sky so the next ones would have room to fall.

On foot you arrive late or early, without excuse, and settle into whatever conversation in under way. It took you a while to get there, so you're obviously going to stay awhile. It feels like visiting in an older sense of the word, and you bring with you the news of the road, not the news you heard on All Things Considered.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

We all need to be reminded that democracy isn't just voting for the president every four years and then trusting him to fix things. Democracy is about getting together with your community to think together about your future.

If you want honey you need a hive of bees. But if you were trying to decide if making honey was a good idea, bees would be the last creatures to ask.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)