Polluted Quotes

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking
Stupidity Looking Greed Increasingly Our Danger We Cannot Destroying Ourselves Small Remain Overcrowded Polluted Cannot Planet
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. Diogenes
Nature Too Sun Shines Polluted
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Saint Augustine
Spiritual Light Virtue Sacrament Like Although Passes Impure Polluted Among
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott
Death You Gardening Ugly Soil Black Dig Earth See Seeds Seems Clay Throw Never Nails Over Over It Know Cover Rocks Rocky Handful Hands Doomed Polluted Holes Again Little Roots Your Full Poppy
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes
Too Sun Polluted Them
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. Aeschylus
Single Vain Though Hasten Cleanse Course Hand Blood Polluted Streams Flow
My Twitter feed is polluted with vitriolic personal abuse, much of it gendered. Like almost all female Members of Parliament, I have both seen and experienced inappropriate and sexist behaviour. Andrea Leadsom
Seen Twitter Members Sexist Both Parliament Feed Almost Almost All Abuse Like Female Personal Behaviour Experienced Polluted Inappropriate Much
Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world. Charles C. Mann
World Water Job Forcing Local Corporate Giants Systems City Rather Clean Clean Up Factories Take Outsource Supply Developing Developing World Over Named French Around Handful Up Than Managing Often Polluted After Decided Themselves Planet Company Now
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination. Charles Duhigg
Water Cause Drinking Difficult Drinking Water Instance Contamination Particular Like Source Tests Pinpoint Link Disease Often Polluted Pollution Hard Show Even Specific
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall. Dario Argento
Success Good Business Money Become Relationships Carpenter Bad John John Carpenter Horror Directors Had Genre Led Polluted Brian Downfall Many Things
We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input. Dean Kamen
Water Ocean Salt Energy Input Ways Make Very Polluted Whether Low Working
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places. Greg MacGillivray
World Water Some Colorado River Over Overused Polluted Happening Places
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. Harri Holkeri
Life Water Living Everybody More More And More Finland Countries Like Protecting Becoming Baltic Shore Polluted Sweden Sea Near
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. James Buchan
Future Three Power Stations Future Generations Plutonium Cost Only Could Generations Most Safe Half-Way Making Dear Leave Been Years Task Sites Want Polluted Which Eternity Produced Products Electricity Radioactive Lethal Waste Nuclear Lunatic Nuclear Power
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color. Jimmy Gomez
Home Other Our Latinos Neighborhoods Color Most American African African Americans Polluted Communities Disproportionately
In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways. John F. Kerry
Natural Clouds Nation Resources Cities Bad Angeles Boston Shape Rivers Over Like Most Chemicals Los Los Angeles Were America Polluted Lakes Natural Resources Harbor Communities Filled Among Hometown
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. Joseph de Maistre
Good Evil Sense Nothing Everything Philosophy Proper Tainted Since Real Very Modern Real Sense Taught Whereas Polluted Place Which Us
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
Future Before Babies Our Born Clean Clean Up Environment Most Permit Importantly Up Polluted Bodies Even
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. Michael E. Mann
Environmental Health Change Has-Been Threats Host Implications Climate Climate Change Discourse Been Decades Just Polluted Disinformation Public Grim Public Discourse Planet Now Societal
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides. Paul Craig Roberts
Food Other Our Hormones Hand Antibiotics Polluted Then Pesticides
The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes. Paul Craig Roberts
Being Polluted Forms Planet Many Wastes
I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us. Piyush Goyal
You People World Burden Will Pay Tell High India Costs Acceptable Because West Polluted Us Now
Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. Radhanath Swami
Education Food Technology People Water Progress Dangerous Soil Stricken Strides Our Strife Air Parallel Degrading Hopelessness Eat Rise Vast Name Sadly Unemployment Polluted Millions Millions Of People
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! Rick Danko
Cleaning Thought Kid Out Would Could Ontario Lifetime Never Around Erie Up Canada Where Polluted Lake Turned Growing Growing Up Ever Start
If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me. Ron White
Me Joke Sit Whatever Down Out Gulf About Write Mexico Polluted Mundane
The few pounds we spend for an item of clothing isn't the true cost - the real cost is the millions of gallons of clean water that was used to grow the fabric, or the millions of gallons of fresh water that was polluted with toxic chemicals to dye the clothes. Stacey Dooley
Water Few Clothes Spend Fabric Cost Clean Clean Water Pounds True Toxic Fresh Chemicals Real Item Clothing Dye Polluted Used Grow Millions
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