#nat

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#clean #global #greatest #maintaining #national

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native. ↗

— Wes Jackson

#education #native #education

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess. ↗

— Jim Costa

#administration #america #business #call #cast

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. ↗

— Jim Costa

#exploration #gas #limits #long #natural

They don’t want me. They’re curious why you want me. And anyway, I feel sorry for anyone that thinks they have a chance. I am hopelessly and completely in love with you.” A pained look shadowed his face. “You know why I want you? I didn’t know I was lost until you found me. I didn’t know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You’re the one thing I’ve got right. You’re what I’ve been waiting for, Pigeon. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #in-love #jamie-mcguire #love #sweet

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#france #nation #numbers #only #patrons

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#cure #difficult #enemy #environmental #environmental problems

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#face #i #i believe #i believe that #interdependence

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. ↗

— Alex Cox

#big #big problem #corporations #creates #dictate

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#because #busy #day #find #first