#erica

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#american #american tradition #back #brought #coast

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." ↗

— Helen Rowland

#claim #divorces #france #happiest #made

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#america #anybody #confront #cunning #fact

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#abuse #accountable #america #army #been

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#american movies #behavior #everyday #most #movies

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#african american #am #american #because #black

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. ↗

— John Russell

#camp #connotation #intern #name #native

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#any #because #being #bugged #doing

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#america #exporting #inventing #making #now

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have. ↗

— John Hay Whitney

#community #day #every #every day #excitement