Bill McKibben Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
  by giving each other motorized tie racks.

  Bill McKibben

  Christmas, Ties, Giving

• We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

  Bill McKibben

  Powerful, Thinking, Names

• When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Giving Up, Talking

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