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Quotes About Recycling

One man's trash ends up another man's wife.
~ Unknown
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
~ Woody Allen
The world of politics is like the four seasons of warmth, hatred, reconciliation and remorse. The fifth season is recycling.
~ Unknown
There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.
~ Colin Beavan
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.
~ Colin Beavan
Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!
~ Unknown
Just as you drop body parts, those parts reassemble, and have done so continuously over the history of the earth. People decompose, become dirt, dirt becomes vegetables and fruit, animals and people eat the food that grows from the dirt that was once a body. It is all one big recycling program the earth does.
~ Linda Armstrong
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
~ Paul Stamets
Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan - changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make - might reduce emissions by four tons a year.
~ Annie Lowrey
studio and the junkyards
~ Jeffery Deaver
If you're angry, channel that energy into change. Can you stop China from pumping so many carbon emissions into the atmosphere? Directly? By yourself? Today? No. But you can make a point to buy American products. You can adopt a small portion of highway and orchestrate the cleanup efforts. You can start a recycling program in your office. You can begin to chip away; you can control what you do.
~ Jen Lancaster
She's that bad boy you want, but in a girl who believes in recycling. Freud described the kinds of feelings I had for Amy as loving the same person twice, as a woman and as a man.
~ Jennifer Baumgardner
It's not plagiarism — I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do.
~ Unknown
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
~ Victor Hugo
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
~ Ed Pastor
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
~ David Attenborough
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the bag.
~ Michel Faber
Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
~ Keanu Reeves
Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Qué quiere decir? —se extrañó Dalmau. —Pues que mientras unos respetan nuestro trabajo y nos encargan piezas y diseños, y confiemos que sigan haciéndolo, Gaudí se dedica a recoger los desechos de fábricas y talleres para recubrir las obras con eso que él llama trencadís, un mosaico mal ensamblado de piezas rotas y restos desechados de cerámica, vidrio y porcelana.
~ Unknown
The Book Booth There's not a big selection, It's not locked for protection, But at the intersection Of Booth and Telephone, Two customers politely Can snuggle in it (tightly) And go once over (lightly) The books they'd like to own. "Readcycle" means you leave one - A book you love. Retrieve one... Who knows? You might receive one You haven't read before. Hats off to the committee For such an itty-bitty Library in the city, Which proves that less is more.
~ J. Patrick Lewis