182 Quotes by Bill McKibben

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

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves – that is what all this boils down to.

Last year, the USDA said for the first time in 150 years that there were more farms in America instead of fewer. I think that’s the single most hopeful statistic I know.

Until it’s understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to overcome the status quo.

But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves, that if you backed off a little and didn’t ask too much of the world then it would meet you halfway.

With each month that passes, a solar panel gets 2 or 3 percent cheaper. So while we’re holding the fossil fuel industry in check, the engineers in the renewable energy world are undercutting them from the other side.

Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question.

We already have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as any scientist thinks is safe to burn.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet.