Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing. ”

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. ”

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ”

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. ”

The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq. ”

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income. ”

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values. ”

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue. ”

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started. ”

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all. ”