I asked him what he thought of the Great Lakes now. I'm…

“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at…

— Susan Magsamen

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes…

— Bart Stupak

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of…

— John Lithgow

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for…

— Timothy Egan

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire…

— Dan Egan

Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was…

— Doug Rice

The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit…

— Winona LaDuke

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on…

— Jennifer Granholm

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming…

— Norman Reedus

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water…

— Debbie Stabenow

I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism…

— James Howard Kunstler