Quotes by Bill McKibben

...only in relatively recent times have people decided that because I want to is sufficient reason for annoying others.

Management of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that its not really there.

I think people who dont know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyones interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I havent been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds Ive never seen in the fall (Ive seen them in the summer - but thats a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.