They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them. — Rose George Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Let me just say that if God was a city planner he would not put a playground next to a sewage system!… — Forgetting Sarah Marshall Copy Share Image
“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the… — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But when I saw the price of water I nearly choked. In the last hour it had gone up tenfold. Buying some… — Nicholas Lamar Soutter Copy Share Image
One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff.… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic,… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
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