#polluted

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bad #both #children #coming #development

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! ↗

— Rick Danko

#canada #cleaning #could #erie #ever

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. ↗

— Diogenes

#polluted #shines #sun #too

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. ↗

— Diogenes

#penetrates #polluted #sun #them #too

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#comprehended #creature #gracious #helpless #his

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cry #dirty #how #irish #know

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#another #dead #earth #even #go