Bill Bryson Quotes

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

I don't like litter and blight.

Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I come from garbage.

I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

If they [the Federal government] can't handle the [toxic] waste, they shouldn't generate it.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.