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.

Pollution... desecration of the environment... despoiling of nature... I really wonder if any of it matters. Maybe it's a hopeless bloody world because it's inhabited by hopeless bloody people. Maybe what's happening's right. Maybe we're creating just the kind of world we deserve. And if it finally destroys us or drives us mad, that'll be what we deserve too. Dr. John Ridge
There's an old Chinese proverb, by this Mao fellow, that says a toad in a well only gets to see some of the sky. And if the toad came up, he'd see more of the world. Which, you know, is a bit like me in a way. I've seen more of the world just from doing this. I don't know if it's made me a better person or not, but he's saying it is. He's saying that if you get out of the well and see the bigger picture, it's good for you. But I say it isn't. And the thing is, it's not even worth getting out to see more sky, 'cause of all the pollution. Karl Pilkington
Pollution, pollution! / They got smog and sewage and mud. / Turn on your tap / And get hot and cold running crud! Ronald Ray Bryant; Nathan Perez; Russell Lee Atkins; Paul Ramirez; Alfonso Cook
Pollution, pollution! / You can use the latest toothpaste, / And then rinse your mouth / With industrial waste. Ronald Ray Bryant; Nathan Perez; Russell Lee Atkins; Paul Ramirez; Alfonso Cook
Pollution, pollution! / Wear a gas mask and a veil. / Then you can breathe, / Long as you don't inhale! Ronald Ray Bryant; Nathan Perez; Russell Lee Atkins; Paul Ramirez; Alfonso Cook
Long John Silver is dumping his chemical waste / The sea is turning gray with a slick once more / All the animals are lying dead on the shore Craig Miller
Those stiffened limbs, that swollen face, - / Pollution's last and best embrace, / Will call, as such a picture can, / For retribution upon man. George Meredith
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
One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it. Patrick Ness
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. Chief Seattle
Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted. Amit Abraham
Talking about pollution, nobody's holy. They who pollute, sinned against nature. Toba Beta
The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that, very soon, sixty-four packs of crayons will include the color Sky Brown. Cuthbert Soup
We tend to think of environmental catastrophes—such as the recent Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in the Bay of Alaska—as 'accidents': isolated phenomena that erupt without notice or warning. But when does the word accident become inappropriate? When are such occurrences inevitable rather than accidental? And when does a consistent pattern of inevitable disasters point to a deep-seated crisis that is not only environmental but profoundly social? Murray Bookchin
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?' Robert F. Kennedy
I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution. Bernie Sanders
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. Ha-Joon Chang
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. Rachel Carson
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. Evo Morales
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. Christian de Duve
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Dan Quayle
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will. Chai Jing
To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place. Boyan Slat
Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem. Ma Jun