Top 1200 Noise Pollution Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

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

The data show it's possible to grow the economy without growing pollution.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun, he simply makes noise. But the darkness of the night is dispelled by sunshine, not by the rooster's crowing. The world can use more light and less noise. Wherever I can, I want to be light.

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should lower the noise level in our homes so that the noise of the world will not overpower the still, small voice of the Holy Ghost. One of our greatest goals as parents should be to enjoy the power and influence of the Holy Ghost in our homes.

I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

Your skin is a barrier that protects you from environmental aggressors like pollution, bacteria and moisture loss.

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

I'm not a grunter, I'm relatively quiet. There's a little bit of breathing out. Some people get really loud! There's a little bit of psyching up sometimes, if you're going for a really heavy weight you might make a little noise, but when lifting, I try and keep it quite quiet - I'm not a fan of male noise in that way to be totally honest. I think when girls do it it's not as bad, but when guys do it it's just like, 'Come on mate, hold it in!'.

Spread your ear pollution far and wide.

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the emerald carpet, the warriors make war, and it is like a dance, almost beautiful, always macabre. The noise brings me back, the fearsome noise of swords striking swords, a metallic clanging that rings in my ears, echoing and echoing the fearsome din of men screaming and crying as they meet the sharp ends of blades.

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.

I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

I get a lot of hate posting vegan, environment and pollution stuff.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

I believe that cleansing and hydrating is extremely important, especially with the environment's condition and the pollution around.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

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.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego's environment.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.