Win The Life

"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

 

"Pollution is the forerunner of perdition--John Trapp

 

"It´s an illusion that the solution to pollution is dilution!"- Unknown

 

"Use cleaning supplies that don't pollute--Donna Schwartz Mills

 

"The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ...
Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world--James M. Fitch

 

"The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear-Lyndon Baines Johnson

 

"Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled-Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

"We were surprised at the little things we could all do to reduce our greenhouse gases by one-tonne. We all could make more of a difference when it comes to greenhouse gases-Catherine Pulsifer

 

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society. - James Graham Ballard

 

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

 

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 sun, which passeth through pollution's and itself remains as pure as before. - Sir Francis Bacon

 

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

 

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

 

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.-Jane D. Hull

 

Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.-Lane Evans

 

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.-Jack Herer

 

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.-Gale Norton

 

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.-Steve Buyer

 

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.-George Murray

 

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.-Louise Slaughter

 

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.-Michael Pollan

 

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.-Garrett Hardin

 

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.-Dan Quayle

 

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.-Tom Allen

 

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.-Uri Geller

 

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

 

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.-Barry Commoner

 

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.-Louise Slaughter

 

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.-Theodore White

 

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.-Eddie Bernice Johnson

 

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. -Paul Brooks

 

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. -Unknown

 

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. -William Ruckelshaus

 

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. -Pat Brown

 

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. -Henrik Tikkanen

 

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. -Darryl Cherney

 

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? -Robert Redford

 

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. -Michel de Montaigne

 

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. -Thomas Fuller

 

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! -Paul MacCready, Jr.

 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -Native American Proverb

 

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. -Marshall McLuhan

 

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them. -Horizon

 

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. -James G. Watt

 

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. -Sir George Porter

 

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. -Ralph Nader

 

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. -Aldo Leopold

 

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. -Marya Mannes

 

The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. -David Wann

 

So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. -Philip Shabecoff

 

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. -John Clapham

 

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess- -Art Buchwald

 

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. -Paul A. Samuelson

 

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. -Bill Vaughn

 

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. -Tom McMillan

 

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. -Jacques Barzun

 

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -Elwyn Brooks White

 

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. -Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. -Pliny the Elder

 

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.-George Carlin

 

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. -David Brin

 

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel- -The Washington Post

 

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. -Dennis Gabor

 

When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.-John Drinkwater

 

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. - Unknown

 

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. - Unknown

 

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. -David Orr

 

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. -Francis Bacon

 

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. -Robert Lynd