"The end of nature sours all my material……" — Bill McKibben
"The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits."
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61 Quotes by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben has 61 quotes on this site.
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
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Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to…
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Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it…
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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
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There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be…
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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's…
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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to…
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We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep…
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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and…
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According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making…
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More Advancement Quotes
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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