Quotes About Pollution And Nature

#1. A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.

Pamela Crane

#2. Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

Frosty Wooldridge

#3. A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

#5. We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Steven Magee

#6. Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.

Paul Stamets

#7. You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

Tom Clancy

#8. Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

Greg Behrendt

#9. Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

Irv Kupcinet

#10. The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature ... these are not good stories.

Jack Dangermond

#11. Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#12. For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

John F. Kennedy

#13. 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

#14. Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.
They who pollute, sinned against nature.

Toba Beta

#15. To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Herbert A. Simon

#16. Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

Li Keqiang

#17. There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.

William Irwin Thompson

#19. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#20. Men were just plain ridiculous with how little time it took them to get handsome.

Gina Robinson

#21. Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Eduardo Paes

#22. You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

Ian Rankin

#23. Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back ... child labor in mines or mills ... Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Tomas Eloy Martinez

#25. The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

#26. The living sinners on deadly ground.

Toba Beta

#27. Environment is no one's property to destroy; it's everyone's responsibility to protect.

Mohith Agadi

#28. 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 high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

Richard M. Nixon

#29. On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

Ma Jun

#30. Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.

David Wolfe

#31. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.

Michael Crichton

#32. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Erica Jong

#33. As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living.

Mira Grant