Drowning Quote by Winona LaDuke Download Open image “Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.” — Winona LaDuke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drowning Forests Oceans Oil Our
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive… — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage… — Lloyd Bridges Copy Share Image
We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore. — Billy Nungesser Copy Share Image
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I believe that capitalism and communism are really much more about how the wealth is distributed, if it trickles down or is appropriated at the beginning… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
