Saving Paradise Quotes

“Each of the four hundred turbine towers, he said, has three blades, each bigger than a Boeing 747 wing and weighing 22 tons. For each tower they dig a huge cavity in the ground, dump all that earth somewhere, and pour a two-million-pound concrete and steel base that will be there forever.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Our window into the minds and lives of creatures halfway between us dumb domestic humans and the wild world we lost so long ago.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“What if, it came to me in a flash, instead of attacking Iraq and since then killing nearly a million people, what if Bush had said to the Iraqis, Look, it’s going to cost America about two trillion dollars to do this war, so why don’t we divide the money instead, and each get a trillion? I’ll give you a trillion for marvelous new schools and fantastic hospitals, solar panels on every roof so everyone has good power, good roads, lots of environmental restoration, all those good things? And I’ll keep our trillion from going further into debt? And no one dies. How could everyone not have agreed?”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“But our biggest enemies are all the knee-jerk politically correct folks who still don’t understand that wind power doesn’t lower greenhouse gases or fossil fuel use, but it destroys environments, property values, human health, millions of birds and bats and many other things. And that it only exists because of huge taxpayer subsidies, billions and billions that can never be repaid, money that goes straight into the pockets of the oil companies and investment banks behind these schemes … They make billions but never risk a cent.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“But in the U.S. it’s easy to own politicians. All you have to do is give them lots of money. So the big corporations own most of our politicians. And when these huge companies are looking to make money off our citizens, our government is always there to help them out.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Anyone might think, I imagine, that I have an easy life. Get up early to surf, a job that pays enough to keep me surfing and canoe racing and chasing women, a car that often runs, pets I love and a roof that rarely leaks. What more is there in life?”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“up”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“The stars were mirrored in the sea like thousands of diamonds, as though I floated through deep space.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“And as any teacher knows, giving someone the gifts of bliss, awareness, fun and knowledge is about the greatest high you can get.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“because God bless the American taxpayer, they love whales and the environment and what they don’t want is more wars and trashing what’s left of this lovely earth we live on.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Who was it said, We jail the small thieves and vote the big ones into office?”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“So it irks me when I see good people worn to the bone working ten, twelve hours a day for nine bucks an hour. They have a lousy place to live and their kids don’t have good clothes and their car if they have one doesn’t run well, and you can see from the beaten, exhausted look in their eyes they think the reason they aren’t doing better is their fault. When in reality everything is stacked against them, and the system wants them to be broke and work hard because that way it squeezes the maximum out of them for the minimum investment. They think they’re failures in life when in reality they’re trapped, serfs in our modern feudal world.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“No matter what we say or do,” Mitch added, “they run right over us. They use our tax money to hire consultants to prove what they want, hire PR firms to sell the project to us − they lie and we don’t have the millions of dollars to fight back.” He said nothing, then added sadly, “People don’t realize we don’t live in a democracy anymore.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Supposedly there are cat people and dog people, but us lucky folks have both. Our window into the minds and lives of creatures halfway between us dumb domestic humans and the wild world we lost so long ago.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“sliding toward the sea. Then Hoolehua Airport,”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“A dog is a loyal, loving companion and protector, but a house without a cat is like a body without a heart.”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise

“environmental”
― Mike Bond, Saving Paradise