I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

  • -- Bruce Babbitt 布鲁斯·巴比特

我在西部长大,在土地上长大,接受过地质学的教育。我带着我们应该做什么的愿景来到这里。

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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

你不能简单地把新东西放到一个地方。你必须吸收你周围看到的东西,土地上存在的东西,然后用这些知识和当代思维来解释你看到的东西。

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

当人们说“让我们做点什么吧”时,他们的意思是“让我们掌握政治机制,这样我们就能对别人做点什么。”而那个人总是你。

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

我和它一起成长,我经常去看那些和尚,他们没有任何财产,甚至比我母亲还要极端。

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

在我成长的年代,从来不会有人告诉我有什么是我做不到的。

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

不是所有的政治犯都是无辜的。

Anything to do with the land, I love.

任何与土地有关的事,我都爱。

I would have been a geologist.

我会成为一名地质学家。

I am a geologist.

我是一名地质学家。