Quotes About Pollution

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

Wendy rolled her window down. The night chill blasted into the car. She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. All I smell is arsenic trioxide and sodium nitrate. Americans don't garden, they wage chemical warfare on their plants.

If you are what you eat, you're part plastic - because every animal on earth is eating it.

The sense of hopelessness that comes from our apparent inability to control the environment is now a universal hostility. Industrial chemicals can lead to pollution, drugs can lead to suicide, and the advertising drum beats for nonsensical fads. Humor may be our only rational way of coping with the fear of terrorism, an invasion of spooks from outer space, or the chemical mutation of our planet.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Sift through threats for hidden possibilities. Every threat carries with it the potential for innovation. The problem of obesity contains the possibility of new kinds of nutrition. The problem of global pollution contains the possibility of new energy sources. The problem of high unemployment contains the possibility of new educational models. The list is endless, if you can learn to see what's not there.

The Spanish silver mines, for example, once part of Hannibal's domain, were soon producing so much more ore that the environmental pollution from its processing can still be detected in datable samples extracted from deep in the Greenland ice cap.

these polluters shall have the sole right to decide what: kind of shit, poison, toxic or hazardous waste they will dump on us. If, at some later date, the tribe should adopt stricter standards for waste disposal, then we must compensate those bastards for the costs arising from the new rules.

one dollar for every ton of waste.

Those wedding magazines pollute a woman's brain: designer dresses, thousands of flowers, and so much tulle! It's too much.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Unfortunately, there are designers and marketing people who intentionally look down on the consumer with the notion that vulgarity has a definite appeal to the masses, and therefore they supply the market with a continuos flow of crude and vulgar design. I consider this action criminal since it is producing visual pollution that is degrading our environment just like all other types of pollution.

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.

Les déchets animaux polluent les eaux plus que toutes les autres sources industrielles combinées

Es urgente pues detener este «ecocidio» de los océanos, uno de los ecosistemas más preciados y más útiles para el equilibrio del planeta, que no obstante ha sido rebajado al rango de «recurso económico» o de basurero.

Les polluants organiques persistants s'accumulent en effet dans les tissus graisseux des animaux et entrent ainsi dans l'alimentation humaine. Ces polluants organiques persistants se retrouvent également dans la chair des poissons d'élevage, lesquels sont nourris d'aliments concentrés fabriqués notamment à partir de protéines animales.

Merely by living, man becomes degraded and loses in purity what he gains in power. However clear a spring may be, when it becomes a river it cannot help being polluted by mud and slime.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Some people liked to make everything dirty. Some people liked to ruin everything.

Heat and wind and poisonous smoke.