What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.

We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

The only compensation for land is land.

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.