Polluting Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into… — Gloria Steinem
That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this… — Michael Berryman
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's… — Lloyd Bridges
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. ... I… — Will Wynn
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community… — Wes Jackson
I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit:… — Eusebius
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible… — Eckhart Tolle
We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't… — Denis Hayes
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. — David Suzuki
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge… — William F. Lynch
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. — Pat Buchanan
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to,… — Jeff Goodell
Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all… — Morgan Freeman
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?… — Wendell Berry
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were… — Sebastiao Salgado
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. — H. L. Mencken
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned. — B.F. Skinner
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. — James Fallows

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