Nature Quotes by Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

— Bill McKibben

One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.

— Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

— Bill McKibben

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the…

— Bill McKibben

For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A…

— Bill McKibben

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike…

— Bill McKibben

Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I…

— Bill McKibben

Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.…

— Bill McKibben

After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the…

— Bill McKibben

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be…

— Bill McKibben

The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet…

— Bill McKibben

“The Keeling Curve Courtesy the NASA Earth Observatory. NASA graph by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by the NOAA Climate Monitoring…

— Bill McKibben

“The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about global warming; it came out in 1989 and soon…

— Bill McKibben

“I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the…

— Bill McKibben

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road)…

— Bill McKibben

We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of…

— Bill McKibben

The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written…

— Bill McKibben

“Few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go into the making of our climates and weather,…

— Bill McKibben

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.…

— Bill McKibben

“We speak often, and sentimentally, of being 'enchanted' by the natural world. But what if it's the other way around? What if…

— Bill McKibben

“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an…

— Bill McKibben