Quotes about pollution

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

— Rachel Carson

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.

— Leonard Cohen

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

— Rene Dubos

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

— Ralph Nader

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.

— Ronald Reagan

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

— William Shakespeare

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

— John Steinbeck