Global warming is, quite simply, the biggest thing that humans have ever managed to do.

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"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there."

- Bill McKibben

Awareness

"We’re not going to win by changing light globes. We need you to be deeply, politically engaged."

- Bill McKibben

Motivation

"Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself."

- Bill McKibben

Mindfulness

"If it is wrong to wreck the planet, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage."

- Bill McKibben

Environment

"The first rule of holes is that when you are in one, stop digging."

- Bill McKibben

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"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

Environment

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."

- Alan Watts

Environment

"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."

Environment

"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."

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