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“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”

Desire Purpose Moral Practice Land Tears Development Safe Mountain Creating Function Treasure Destructive Flats Coal Removal Mining Bowels Burglars

Author:Joseph Conrad

“As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.”

World Firsts Humans Long Earth Land Moon Safe Creatures Intelligent Corners Legacy Cosmos Living Creatures Intelligent Life

Author:Hugh Downs

“BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.”

Land Havens Safe Sticks Fingers Radio Consideration Pot Honey Nuts Scholar Broadcasting Hares Safe Haven Never Never Land

Author:Morley Safer

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

“I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.”

Knows Bigs Jobs Land Promise Safe Consequence Corporations Multinationals Multinational Corporations

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.”

World Literature Land Safe Green Democratic Filmmaker Afghanistan Intrigued New Zealand

Author:Pietra Brettkelly

“I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.”

Knows Way Want Heaven One Thing Land Safe Shore

Book:John Wesley

Source: John Wesley

“I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.”

Done Found Land Safe Appreciate Safe Places

Author:Ben Harper