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
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller,Gnomologia, 1732
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted inNewsweek, 8 March 1982
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect, 1959
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
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams