Pollution Quotes

260 quotes by 202 authors

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also… — Michael Palin
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk
We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is… — Richard M. Nixon
People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause. — Richard M. Nixon
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our… — Ronald Reagan
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources… — Ronald Reagan
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to… — Ronald Reagan
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. — Barry Commoner
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. — Ronald Reagan
I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of… — Leonardo DiCaprio
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the… — Ronald Reagan
We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent… — Edward Kennedy
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory… — Fay Godwin
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track… — Al Gore
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic… — Josh Fox
Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. — Bob Dylan
That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we… — Van Jones
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.… — Plutarch
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption… — John Bunyan
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier… — Terry Pratchett

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