The STORY of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is STILL new to most Americans. They have no idea that their COUNTRY's physical legacy - the purple MOUNTAIN majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the RATE of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

What has DESTROYED every previous civilization has been the tendency to the UNEQUAL distribution of wealth and POWER.

The Medici CREATED and DESTROYED me.

Marriage DESTROYED my RELATIONSHIP with two wonderful MEN.

My DESTROYED UNIVERSE is very SIMILAR to that of the 'Guardians of the GALAXY.'

Think of THINGS that can be created, not DESTROYED, and that BRING BEAUTY and joy.

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored EVERYTHING, when that isn't the CASE. We so know so LITTLE about the ocean, and so much of it is being DESTROYED.

I THINK my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you REALLY, really not CARE about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world GOING to be LIKE for your great-grandchildren?'

You have to be self-reliant and STRONG to SURVIVE in this TOWN. OTHERWISE you will be DESTROYED.

Well, we KNOW that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish PARLIAMENT, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of UNION. GENTLEMEN, the Act of Union was carried by FORCE and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

I do believe in the BIBLE as the FINAL word of GOD. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be DESTROYED by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.

I LIKE to have Chinese furniture in my home as a CONSTANT and painful REMINDER of how much has been destroyed in China. The CONTRAST between the beauty of the PAST and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

What was NEW was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just PHYSICALLY cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the AMERICAN nation.