Lake Erie Quotes

• Los seres humanos serán más felices, no cuando curen el cáncer o lleguen a Marte o eliminen los prejuicios raciales o limpien el lago Erie, sino cuando encuentren la forma de volver a habitar comunidades primitivas. Ésa es mi utopía.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cáncer, Lagos, Comunidad

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). "Conversaciones con Kurt Vonnegut", p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

  Rick Danko

  Growing Up, Kids, Lakes

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• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

  James Monroe

  Country, Lakes, Land

  James Monroe (199?). "Los escritos de James Monroe: 1817-1823".

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• Hemos conocido al enemigo y es nuestro.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Día de los Caídos, Día de los Veteranos, Militares

  Mensaje a William Henry Harrison, 10 de septiembre de 1813. La fuente es el despacho de Perry desde el bergantín estadounidense Niagara al general Harrison, anunciando que la victoria en la batalla del lago Erie estaba asegurada. El despacho estaba escrito a lápiz en el reverso de una carta antigua; se cita en Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). VerWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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• You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

  Paul Fleischman

  Spring, Lakes, Cleveland

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• Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

  Barry Commoner

  Meaningful, Believe, Lakes

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• You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Lakes, Want Something

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