"An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#Rivers Quotes #Community Quotes #Balance Quotes

“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”
“I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.”
“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”
“No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.”

Source : Jacques Ellul (2011). “Anarchy and Christianity”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.”

Source : House of Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. January 18, 2016.
“No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.”
“I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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