"We are altering the most basic forces of……" — Bill McKibben
"We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation."
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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 Altering Quotes
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can…
— John C. Maxwell
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for…
— Paul Fleischman
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
— Sun Tzu
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,…
— Joshua Foer
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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
— Paul Theroux
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a…
— Unknown Author
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
— Robert Boyle
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