The End of Nature Quotes

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. “Let it speak,” he says, “the Maker’s high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg’d in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain’d for uses to his Lord best known.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / organic wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“By changing the weather, we make every spot on earth man-made and artificial. We have deprived nature of its intedependence, and that is fatal to its meaning. Nature's independence is its meaning; without it there is nothing but us.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“The logic of divestment couldn't be simpler: if it's wrong to wreck the climate, it's wrong to profit from that wreckage.”
― Bill McKibben (Author), The End of Nature