I don't understand how we can be so stupid to [not] realize that we have to have the lungs of the earth, the earth has to breathe. And if we do away with the trees. [pause] We have to quit burning things. We have the mentality of a firecracker, you know? We're still in the woods lighting fires.
No Depression (31 October 2003)
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