A Quote by Wade Davis

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

Wade Davis

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Chapel Drilling Like Mining Oil Sacred Sistine Sistine Chapel

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Wade Davis
Canadian - Scientist
Born: December 14, 1953

Do not tell me that we're not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. I mean, I guess there's some - there are a few spots where we're not drilling. We're not drilling in the national mall. We're not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have like, you know, 200 oil rigs in the middle of Chesapeake Bay.

Barack Obama

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

Robert Redford

Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing - all these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences.

Tatiana Schlossberg

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.

Lydia Millet

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Bill Lear

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

James Rosenquist

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Edvard Munch

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

Peter Greenaway

Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil.