Quote by: Bill McKibben

I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall (I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.


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Author Bio


  • NameBill McKibben
  • DescriptionAmerican environmentalist and writer
  • BornDecember 8, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Sophie Prize; Gandhi Peace Award; Right Livelihood Award