"what sets wilderness apart in the modern day……" — 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) 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."
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61 Quotes by Bill McKibben
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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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