Pollution Quotes - Page 7

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

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Laughing, Receiving

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Music, Beautiful, Silence

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

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• And the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Geddy Lee

  Ties, Horizon, Earth

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• It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Jobs, Rain, Technology

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Views, Issues

  "Robin Williams Interview License To Wed". Wild About Movies Interview, www.wildaboutmovies.com.

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• In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Age, Needs, Culture

  Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.155, Images Publishing

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• I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Reduction, Carbon Tax

  "Opposition vows to repeal carbon tax". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. February 28, 2011.

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• 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

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  Michael E. Mann

  Cancer, Rain, Mean

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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• Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Creating, Atmosphere

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Green World, Earth Day, Humanity

  "The Arrogance of Humanism". Book by David Ehrenfeld, 1978.

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• In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, War, Adversity

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• If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

  Amit Goswami

  War, Views, People

  Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.8, Penguin

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• It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.

  Fred Krupp

  Energy, Cost, Incentives

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• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

  Jeff Goodell

  Environmental, Climate, Global Warming

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• Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

  Grandmaster Caz

  Rap, Past, Hip Hop

  "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.

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• Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

  Arianna Huffington

  Air, Water, Car

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• Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.

  S. S. Wilson

  Energy, Machines, Demand

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• I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

  Lydia Lunch

  Hurt, Sex, Healing

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• Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.

  Saul Gorn

  Examination, Information, Topics

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• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Air

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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