Bill McKibben

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”

― Bill McKibben

“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”

― Bill McKibben

“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”

― Bill McKibben

“In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.”

― Bill McKibben

“But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.”

― Bill McKibben

“what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.”

― Bill McKibben

“the television culture celebrates incompetence.”

― Bill McKibben

“money supplants skill; it's possession allows us to become happily stupid.”

― Bill McKibben

"The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done."

― 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