Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Pollution. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Pollution Quotes And Sayings by 91 Authors including Oscar Arias,Charlotte Gerson,Ted Danson,Kevin Richardson,Russell Kirk for you to enjoy and share.
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet. -- Oscar Arias
One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. -- Charlotte Gerson
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers. -- Ted Danson
We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. -- Kevin Richardson
The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights. -- Russell Kirk
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now. -- Frances Beinecke
I hate noise pollution. Get that filthy soda can out of my ear! -- Jarod Kintz
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. -- Ambrose Bierce
Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water. -- Lisa P. Jackson
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. -- David Foreman
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. -- Terry Pratchett
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. -- Ayn Rand
Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem. -- Ma Jun
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death. -- Gerald Durrell
Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive. -- Cathy Hughes
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
I think there are changes in the environment. There are a lot of items to contribute to it. -- Kevin Mccarthy
Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution. -- Yehuda Berg
Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled. -- Wolfgang Ketterle
The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ... -- Alexis Carrel
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough. -- Eckhart Tolle
Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system. -- Taiichi Ohno
The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution! -- Bobby Seale
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause. -- Michael Crichton
Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. -- Radhanath Swami
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food. -- Edmund Muskie
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina Mccarthy
Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity. -- Pope Benedict Xvi
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
You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I am really concerned about all of the chemicals. Global warming is another huge one, but the amount of chemicals being used in like laundry detergents and fertilizers is concerning. -- Mason Jennings
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us. -- Bruce Lipton
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. -- Cheryl Mendelson
There is a ... position that considers the moral complications of pollution not in terms of doing harm, but in terms of trespassing ["Poisoning the Well," High Country News, January 19, 2015]. -- Benjamin Hale
Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born. -- Louise Slaughter
Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin. -- Al Gore
Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children's brains, their hearts, and their lungs. -- Julianne Moore
I am an environmentalist ... I am for clean air. -- Ronald Reagan
If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution. -- Horst Rechelbacher
The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire. -- Sandra Bernhard
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. -- Sam Wyly
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth ... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage. -- Herman E. Daly
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management. -- Richard Leakey
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die. -- Barry Commoner
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don't hesitate. Fumigate. -- Mandy Hale
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source ... Breathin'! -- Walt Kelly
We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. -- William J. Clinton
Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. -- Yvon Chouinard
There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make sure that the costs are borne by the parties responsible. -- Milton Friedman
People were like parasites burrowed into the smog. -- Chen Quifan
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans. -- George Holland
The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development. -- Pope Benedict Xvi
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 of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist. -- Al Gore
you give me global warming! But -- Jandy Nelson
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution. -- Pope John Paul Ii
I rant and rave about noise pollution. -- Robert Carlyle
Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted. -- Vladimir Putin
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? -- Jane Jacobs
water. Bear Creek is the cause the -- Carolyn Brown
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. -- Barry Commoner
The assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good for the environment, the workers, and a healthy economy. -- Annie Leonard
If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned. -- Richard Rossi
We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation. -- Philippe Cousteau Jr.
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.
They who pollute, sinned against nature. -- Toba Beta
environmental movement -- Nicholson Baker
We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer. -- Suzanne Somers
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. -- Alan Dundes
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things. -- Joanne Woodward
We had this incredible pass over the Himalayas, and to just see all of that pollution that's riding up against those mountains from the south is just really heartbreaking. -- Scott Kelly
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere. -- Tristram Stuart
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control. -- Ma Jun
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do. -- Ronald Reagan
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. -- George Carlin
living in a stinking -- Lynn Austin
The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half -- Michael Crichton
Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment. -- Aubrey De Grey
Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa -- Ban Ki-Moon
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it -- George Bernard Shaw
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. -- Rene Dubos
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can. -- Bob Woodward
We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard. -- Richard M. Nixon
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. -- Pope Francis
Too many rocks in the mountains. -- Dave Barry
As creatures with a body, we should all be especially concerned about the quality of air, water and food we allow into our bodily vehicle. -- Bryant Mcgill
The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must. -- Mary Kay Ash
The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human. -- Steven Magee
Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. -- Jared Diamond
I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down. -- Dar Williams
Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. -- John Barrasso
There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air. -- Brittany Bowe
The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase. -- Amy Dacyczyn
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. -- Lester R. Brown
Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations. -- Frances Beinecke
When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses. -- Dennis Weaver
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature. -- Ross Parmenter
