Felicite de La Mennais Quotes

Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

There's basically filth everywhere, and there's no way to escape it.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

The city of gardens [New Delhi] has become the city of garbage.

… a sewer with all the depravity of the human race.

I don't like litter and blight.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

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.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

We live in an epoch of denudation.

Runaway technology, whose only law is profit, has for years poisoned our air, ravaged our soil, stripped our forests bare, and corrupted our water resources

The affluent society has become an effluent society. The 6 percent of the world's population in the United States produces 70 percent or more of the world's solid wastes

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammals—not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.

For him nature is basically a golf course or a ranch--or a national park turned into a country club where folks can burn off stress by speeding over the snow while polluting the air of Yellowstone with gas-guzzling skidoos.

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