Pollution Quotes

This regulation commits the nation to clearing the pollution from parks so that the next generation of park visitors will once again experience the vistas as they were before pollution from industry obscured the view.
Rebecca Stanfield

One whose mind is attuned to the Lord, has no pollution in his body.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the divine spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage and weakness.
Stephen L. Richards

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don`t know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
Altaf Ladak

If ever we had proof that our nation`s pollution laws aren`t working, it`s reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Altaf Ladak

It's a numbers gamein a dense urban area there are so many of us that even unintentional pollution would cause all the crap we see in the water.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

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.

Pollution is an unused resource.
Bill Mollison

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
Gerald Durrell

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

When people decide to drive their cars, they pay the private cost, but they are not made to pay the cost of the pollution they're causing.
Mark McLeod

That basically allows companies that are already emitting levels that are above a health-based standard to go on without having to install pollution-control technologies.
Al Brown

This study investigates whether there is a threshold level below which ozone does not affect mortality. Our findings show that even if all 98 counties in our study met the current ozone standard every day, there would still be a significant link between ozone and premature mortality. This indicates that further reductions in ozone pollution would benefit public health, even in areas that meet regulatory requirements.
Michelle Bell

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.
B. F. Skinner







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