Dear President Barack Obama,
My name is Kristie Herrera and I am a 16 year old who goes to school and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am sending you theses wisdom quotations because of my concerns about the oil spill in the Gulf. It has caused destruction and is harming our world in which we live in. It is also harming every living creature in its reach and it will soon start to harm us humans if we can't find a solution and fix the problem.
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau"
"Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.-John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota"
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare"
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein" "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.-E. B. White"
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.-Franklin D. Roosevelt "
" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~ Martin Luther King "
"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
~Theodore Roosevelt"
"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~ Marya Mannes"
" “Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race” -William E. Gladstone"
I think that a lot of humans are being really selfish and are taking this planet and what is has to offer for granted. One day it's going to be destroyed, but if we try to make it a better place than we can hopefully slow the process. It really bothers me how some people can be so greedy over certain things such as money and oil. All they care about is what they want and need and I just wish that there was a way that they could understand. When they die it's not like they're going to take it with them and when they are here on this earth they should just try to make things better for everyone... animals and the environment included.
In conclusion, I hope that we will be able to fix the problem in the Gulf. I also know that there are going to more disasters and problems... some not as bad and others worse, but it would really help if we could do things that would be for the better to help us all.
Sincerely,
Kristie Herrera
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