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Quotes About Littering

I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.
~ Tony Hadley
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
~ Richard Dawkins
People just dump their trash here and don't even care about who has to pick it up. Like they think the trash fairy's gonna do it or something.
~ Karin Slaughter
The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure - stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering.
~ Robert B. Parker
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
~ Derek Landy
Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.
~ Anonymous
The act of littering annoys me more than anything, particularly drivers who throw stuff out of the car window.
~ Keith Allen
Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.
~ Paula Poundstone
he laughed loudly, tossed his beer can and cigarette into the compost bin,
~ Sally Goldenbaum
Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.
~ Simon Wood
Observation point, he said, pointing to the wooden sign in front of us that said, OBSERVATION POINT. NO LITTERING. A lot of kids come here on Saturday night. Micheal cleared his throat and looked at me meaningfully. And park. I have to say, up until that moment I really had no idea I was capable of moving so fast as I did getting out of that car. But I was unbuckled and out of that seat quicker than you could say ectoplasm.
~ Meg Cabot
I once saw her throw a Juicy Fruit wrapper on the ground in Central Park. She doesn't even feel guilty about littering.
~ Meg Cabot
It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
~ Eric Close
It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
~ Neal Shusterman
of bacteria, algae, and other truly important creatures. The third was that species, like sullen teenagers, don't pick up after themselves. Cyanobacteria sprayed their oxygen garbage all over Earth without concern for the consequences—littering on an epic scale. People were doing the same with carbon dioxide.
~ Charles C. Mann
Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.
~ Author Unknown
That's one thing I really hate about smokers: the world is their ashtray.
~ Larry Duplechan
Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light.
~ Author Unknown
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
~ Joanna Lumley
I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
~ Joanne Harris
I like greenery, nature, I don't like littering the streets. The progress of science and technology comes at a cost and I don't think we can still fathom the extent of this 'cost'.
~ Anupam Roy
People who drop litter really stress me out. I have been known to chase after people and say, 'Sorry, but you've forgotten something,' and then hand it back to them.
~ Ainsley Harriott
The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.
~ Paul Theroux