Below are some things people have said about sulfide mining, the Great Lakes and related topics.

"Up here on the beautiful Yellow Dog River, to put a mine there - some of these things we have to do, it's almost embarrassing in a way that we have to do them. You'd think some things in this life would be so obvious."
-Greg Brown, from the CD Yellow Dog

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate."
-Izaac Walton

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
-Ernest Hemingway

"When it was calm, and the sun shone bright, I could sit in my canoe, where the depth was upwards of six fathoms, and plainly see huge piles of stone at the bottom, of different shapes, some of which appeared as if they were hewn. The water at this time was as pure and transparent as air; and my canoe seemed as if it hung suspended in that element. It was impossible to look attentively thorough this limpid medium at the rocks below without finding. Before many minutes were elapsed, your head swims, and your eye is no longer able to behold the dazzling scene."
-Jonathon Carver, 18th century explorer

"If, as the elders have told us, we are our grandparents' dream, then we must today begin dreaming of our grandchildren."
- Walt Bressette

I fish because I love to - because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful.
- Robert Traver

"Just as bridges and roads crumble without adequate investment, so are the Great Lakes deteriorating."
-Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Irreverence is the champion of democracy."
-Mark Twain

"We must always remember that water is always more precious than gold."
- Walt Bressette

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