(285 quotes found)
“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”
Robert Orben
“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
Dan Quayle
“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
Ronald Reagan
“Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources”
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted”
Diogenes
“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”
Susan Sontag
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation”
Dixie Lee Ray
“[There] is an increasing sense of what can be called "legal pollution."”
Thomas Ehrlich
