Pollution Quotes

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. (Robert Orben)
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. View quote
Vangelis
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. View quote
Bob Woodward
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. View quote
Dan Quayle
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. View quote
David R. Brower
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. View quote
Fay Godwin
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. (Theodore White)
Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon. View quote
Alexander Berkman
It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you? View quote
Jeremy Hardy
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. View quote
Uri Geller
(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches. View quote
Robert Orben
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin! View quote
Walt Kelly
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. View quote
Gisele Bundchen
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. (Ginni Rometty)
Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather. View quote
Gloria Reuben
Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills. View quote
Gloria Reuben
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. View quote
Gale Norton
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. View quote
Jane D. Hull