Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of… — Heinz Wolff Copy Share Image
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive… — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Every one of you sitting here today is carrying at least 500 measurable chemicals in your body that were never in anybody's… — Theo Colborn Copy Share Image
There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure. — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally. — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Men mostly ignore taking care of their skin. I think a weekly scrub and a face pack for every man is a… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego's environment. — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
I did long-term re-insurance claims. Asbestos, health hazards, pollution. It was very boring. But I've got quite a mathematical brain and it… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
