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Look - every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.
Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 8
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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
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I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.
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In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains.
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If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.
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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
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What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature it is up to us now to heed them.
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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
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