Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
Utah PhillipsTime is an enormous, long river, and Iโm standing in it, just as youโre standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me โ and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world
Utah PhillipsEvery good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah PhillipsWhen I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.
Utah PhillipsThe Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
Utah PhillipsBut if itโs true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
Utah Phillips