182 Quotes by Bill McKibben

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Our weird problem is an abundance of resources and a shortage of hard economic reasons not to use them.

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.