Polluting Quotes
41 quotes by 36 authors
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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
— Aeschylus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.
— David Suzuki
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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
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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
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
— Jeff Goodell
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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
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We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all…
— Morgan Freeman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
— James Fallows
Who Wrote These Polluting Quotes
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