Maturity

"In a sense, what we face is the test of a simple proposition: does age bring with it maturity? Let's define maturity this way: as the understanding that you're not the most important thing in the world. It's hard for anyone succored by a consumer culture to mature. But it's maturity we need, maturity which must undergird any sustainable world. Only mature people might utter the two words our civilization most desperately needs to hear: 'That's enough.'"

-Bill McKibben

"Growing Old Gracefully", The Boston Globe Magazine, May 10th, 1998

From The Bill McKibben Reader