When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears — African Proverb Copy Share Image
The data show it's possible to grow the economy without growing pollution. — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances. — Al Meyerhoff Copy Share Image
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for the power sector, the single-biggest source of carbon emissions in… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we're doing the least about it.… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific -… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
New data suggests contamination in rivers and streams, as well as on land, is increasingly common, with most of the pollution in… — Tatiana Schlossberg 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
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all… — John F. Kennedy 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
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
