“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.” WorldTwoMightWantedAmericaPoliticalWaterPowerFiveSeaProduceEuropeTwentiesDollarsJewSoilMetalsEstablishmentReservesAsiaPalestineStrategicAbsolutely NothingPolitical PowerCrossroadsZionistFatherlandPetroleumUgandaHoly LandSea WaterMadagascarEvaporation Author:Nahum Goldmann
“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.” IfsChildrenI CanHappensRunningAmericaBlackWaterCan DoWhiteIssuesAirDaughterGreenCleanWestSouthEnvironmentalBreatheEastIncomeHardestMy DaughterSwimStakesGoing To WorkEnvironmentalismPasturesClean WaterClean AirGreen Pastures Author:Barack Obama
“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.” PeopleMenShouldMayStatesUseAmericaWaterIndustryFlowRiversEnvironmentalOne ManSewersRivers And WaterWater Pollution Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as the values of fish and wildlife, scenic, and outdoor recreation resources. Although often measureless in commercial terms, these values must be preserved by a program that will guarantee America some semblance of her great heritage of beautiful rivers.” WellsAmericaBeautifulValuesTermWaterProgressEconomicDrinkResourcesBuiltProgramRiversEnvironmentalFishesProtectionGuaranteesHeritageNeglectedWildlifeRecreationAffluentSemblanceEconomic ProgressScenicBeautiful RiverOutdoor Recreation Author:Frank Church
“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.” ArtStillsSoulAmericaSpeakWaterTravelSittingTongueKingdomsPainterDustRuinsRecallsSculpturePilgrimShrinesSandals Book:Sacred Poems Source: Sacred Poems
“It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.” IfsAmericaEnergyWaterGraceStrikesSap Author:George Saunders
“Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.” PeopleBelievePersonsI CanCountryStatesAmericaPresidentWaterReligiousWalksUnitedUnited StatesPoliticianRainHorseWineBarackFrogsBecause I CanReligious Person Author:Bill Maher
“It's a real misconception that water is a problem in Africa only. It's also an issue in Nepal, in Honduras, and in the United States of America. If we don't start paying attention now and curb our use and stop taking it for granted, we're going to be in a bad place, like everyone else.” IfsRealStatesUseProblemAmericaWaterUnitedAttentionUnited StatesIssuesGrantedPay AttentionUnited States Of AmericaMisconceptionCurbNepalHonduras Author:Kenna
“No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.” CountryRunningAmericaWaterRootsSurfaceBoardsSpiders Book:From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-meridian Years Source: From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-meridian Years
“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansTwoSelfActionAmericaSidesWaterJusticeLibertyOne ThingExampleFineBuiltEncouragementIndependenceInstitutionsWesternInternationalImpulseContinentsAssistanceSovereigntyGoverningWestern WorldDisinterested Author:Woodrow Wilson
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.” LongAmericaWaterSimpleDiseaseRainTradeEnvironmentalOilZoneGoodsCustomsRadiationPollutionIrrelevantFrontiersAcidSexuallySpillsNorth AmericaPassportsFree TradeLeaksTaintedInspectionToxinsMicrobesOil SpillNaftaFisheriesAcid RainSexually Transmitted DiseasesGroundwaterTrade Zone Author:Benjamin Barber
“I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.” ThinkingIdeasAmericaCertainEnjoyWaterCan DoPayPeriodsResourcesGasSmall Things Author:Robin Williams
“When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America."” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsStatesProblemBigsGovernmentAmericaWaterRealizingTerribleBiggerHumbleComplainingShelterSomewhere ElseBe HumbleBrashBigger Problems Author:Paul Theroux