Andrew W.K. Quotes

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

Rome is the most dreadful cesspit … the great sewer of Tarquin itself would have been incapable of dealing with such a mass of filth.

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

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

There are so many chemicals in things - that's why people are getting sick.

One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

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

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

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

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

We live in an epoch of denudation.

They are not valuable wetlands. They are degraded industrial wastelands.

Rather filthy 2 -- Filthy 10 -- Very filthy 45 -- Exceedingly filthy 7 -- Disgustingly filthy 26

China is the world’s second largest economy, but the enormous costs of its growth are becoming apparent. Residents of its boom cities and a growing number of rural regions question the safety of the air they breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. It is as if they were living in the Chinese equivalent of the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disaster areas. The environmental hazards here are legion, and the consequences might not manifest themselves for years or even decades.

Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.

Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.

Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

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

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.