“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.” MayCountryWholeSeemsTogetherEasyFireSkySafeSummerLowsDestructionEnvironmentalWoodsDestroyedOur CountrySmokeLandscapeDoomedBoundless Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails
“Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.” MenCountryVoiceLinesCasesGoneFireLegacyShootingRepresentativesIconsExtremist Author:Eugene Jarecki
“In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.” PeopleCountryDreamAmericaFormGivenGrowsChurchChancePayLibertyFireHeroCitizensTerribleHatredStrongerDiscriminationFlamesStatuesBrighterMosquesSynagogueStatue Of Liberty Author:William J. Clinton
“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.” CountryNationsEconomyFireProductsGreedDebtScreensObedienceInvestorsCommodityDeficitRatingElectricalKindlesFluxStock Exchange Author:B. W. Powe
“Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.” PeopleIfsCountryOrderFireCitizensPercentPopulationTerrorIsraelBordersBombsSecondsShelterOther CountriesTunnelsAmerican CitizensKindergartenMassacresBomb Shelters Author:Benjamin Netanyahu