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“Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.”

“Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!”

Sound Air Sweet Dear Swim Village Bells Wedding Bells

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes

“Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.”

Men Humans Nature Walks Animal Opinion Air Sea Land Foolish Paris Japan Swim Rome Peru

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”

Men Life Life Is House Air He Man Rivers Towns Delusion Swim Sincerity Amused Dupes

Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures

“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”

“It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Kind May Mean Littles Enough Successful Air Moon Ships Motive Aviation Faculty Swim Predictions Eagles Hinder Cork Gnats

Author:John Wilkins

“He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.”

Ifs Needs Different Matter Air Despair Pressure Resistance Faster Impulse Proportion Aviation Swim Predictions Fluid Density

Book:The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale

Source: The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale

“A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.”

People Knows Ends Matter Left Water Practice Air Sky Elements Ocean Bird Enlightenment Fishes Range Realms Swim Water Is Life

Author:Dogen

“Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.”

Humans Earth Water Human Beings One Thing Air Bird Fishes Swim

Author:George Bernard Shaw