Pollution Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pollution quotes, pollution sayings, and pollution proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. Li Keqiang
The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space. Eckhart Tolle
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. R. Buckminster Fuller
Environmental pollution is not only humanity's treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth! Mehmet Murat ildan
Polluted rivers, filthy streets, bodies bedded down in doorways are no advertisement for a prosperous or caring society. Michael Heseltine
[Critics have] lost the argument and they don’t want to stop dumping all this pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere. The only thing they have left is cash and now they’re offering cash for so-called skeptics who will try to confuse people about what the science really say. But it’s unethical because now the time has come when we have to act. Al Gore
If you visit American city / You will find it very pretty./ Just two things of which you must beware: / Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air. Ronald Ray Bryant; Nathan Perez; Russell Lee Atkins; Paul Ramirez; Alfonso Cook
Lots of things there that you can drink, / But stay away from the kitchen sink; / The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay, / They drink at lunch in San Jose. Ronald Ray Bryant; Nathan Perez; Russell Lee Atkins; Paul Ramirez; Alfonso Cook
They took all the trees / Put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see 'em Joni Mitchell
They took all the trees / Put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see 'em Joni Mitchell
Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / Till it's gone / They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot Joni Mitchell
Hey farmer, farmer / Put away that DDT now / Give me spots on my apples / But leave me the birds and the bees / Please! Joni Mitchell
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. Aeschylus
Mmmmm, pollution. Smells like profit. Maximilian Malice
Some people believe that the solution to pollution is dilution. Fred Tutman
Don't blame God. Global warming, war, pollution. If it looks like hell down here we did it to ourselves. Dahlia
Look out! Because pollutants can change us. And not just chemical and biological ones - cultural ones, as well. Larry White
It's not ... the oil and the filth and the poisonous chemicals that are the real cause of pollution, Brigadier. It's simply greed. The Doctor
Our climate is fragile. At the rate we're polluting the environment and burning fossil fuels, the ice caps will soon disappear. Jack Hall
You know, if more people rode the bus in this city, maybe we'd be able to see the sky. Pollution is a metaphor for evolution. We made it, people! Tommy Smith
The Earth is a gift, given to us by a loving and benevolent God. But for so long, we took His blessings for granted. We polluted our water supply, our air, even our bodies. We poisoned everything precious to us, and then we were shocked when our world started dying. But through our labors, through the work of the penitent, we can... heal. Stone by stone, we will earn back the favor of our land. Aunt Lydia Clements
I don't think it's a competition between these problems. I don't think one can be put above the other. I think it's like saying, well is global warming worse than ocean acidification or is fishing all the big fish in the sea worse than polluting it? And I think it'd be foolish to try and single out any one of them, to say This is how we're going to fix the planet's problems. We need to fight them on all fronts. Jason Hall-Spencer
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar ice caps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available. Stephen Hawking
It's not just global warming. It's not just fossil-fuel dependency. It's not just soil erosion It's not just chemical contamination of our land and water. It's not just the population problem. And it's not just all of those. - The deterioration of the environment of our planet is an outward mirror of an inner condition. - Like inside, like outside. And that's a part of the Great Work. Wes Jackson
One of the most serious consequences of our actions is global warming brought about by rising levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. The danger is that the temperature increase might become self-sustaining if it has not done so already. Stephen Hawking
So as we destroy nature, we will be destroyed in the process. There's no escaping that conclusion. David Orr
Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children's children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. Leonardo DiCaprio
I just want to say one quite serious thing, I've been thinking about this a lot, but actually it could be horribly prophetic: 'Mad Max,' if we're not kinder to each other and if we don't stop polluting our atmosphere, so you know, it could happen. Jenny Beavan
Rich city folks live in fancy apartments but their air's so polluted they can't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to trade places with any of them. Rex
That's what I'm worried about. Later. Later we'll do something about pollution. . . . We think we've got all the time in the world, but how much time has the world got? Somebody has to begin to care. Dr. Otto Hasslein

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