Air Pollution Quotes

• Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Cities, Achievement

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• 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

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Air, Facts, Pollution

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• 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

  Funny, Men, Air

  Quoted in Sierra, 10 Sept. 1980

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• Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

  Irv Kupcinet

  Mother, Air, Environment

  "Global Peace Lovers". Book by Aasef Shafik, 2008.

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

  Gale Norton

  Air, Years, Pollution Control

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• 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

  Jobs, Opportunity, Air

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• 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

  Air, Support, Administration

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• I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Laughing, Receiving

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

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• 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

  Children, Heart, Doctors

  "Clean Air Anthem" by Ronnie Citron-Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Fun, Successful

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• You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

  Walt Kelly

  Cutting, Air, Want

  "Pogo". Comic strip by Jean Kerr, 1948 - 1975.

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• Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted

  Amit Abraham

  Love Is, Air

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• Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Cities, Air

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• It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!

  George W. Bush

  Air, Dumb, Attention

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• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

  Jonathan Raban

  Country, Nature, Air

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• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Air, Achievement, Too Much

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• 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

  Ocean, Thinking, One Day

  Ian Rankin (2006). “Blood Hunt”

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

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Nuclear, Normal, Humans

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Men, Air

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Air, Sunrise, Pollution

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• One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Pollution Control, Becoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.21, e-artnow

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• It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Air, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19".

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