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[for american consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the mississippi river or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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[for American Consumer Society], The Country's Reserves

Lewis H. Lapham
[for american consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the mississippi river or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. in its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. what we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. at what point in its course does the mississippi become what the mississippi means?
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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. the eagle is a powerful bird. it flies alone. it rises up into the sky with authority. it is master of all it surveys. the eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. but the buffalo was never alone. it always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. and, friends, i call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.
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As founder and co-chair of the upper mississippi river congressional task force, i have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of americans.
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