"TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour."
— Bill McKibben (The Age of Missing Information)

"we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness."
— Bill McKibben (The Age of Missing Information)

"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."
— Bill McKibben (The Age of Missing Information)