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native-american men thinking
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. Carlos Mencia
native-american men rocks
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. Dave Barry
native-american land people
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia. Vandana Shiva
native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
native-american gun steel
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Jared Diamond
native-american epidemics giving
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
native-american people earth
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
native-american heart earth
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
native-american web-of-life earth-day
All things are bound together. All things connect.
web-of-life earth harm
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
web-of-life creation
All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.
web-of-life way vegan
We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death. Ban Ki-moon
web-of-life whatever-happens happens
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
web-of-life thread elsewhere
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. Scott Sanders
web-of-life around-the-world serious
We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. Gaylord Nelson
earth-day earth
There is no such place as away.
earth-day enemy juice
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. Barbara Kingsolver
earth-day too-late mass
It is already too late to avoid mass starvation Denis Hayes
earth-day survival environmental
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. Barry Commoner
earth-day use conquer
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
earth-day way making-peace
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
earth-day strange purpose-of-life
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Albert Einstein
earth-day stories storytelling
Human beings cannot live without stories. Ann Douglas
earth-day planets threat
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. Margaret Atwood