“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.” WasteOceanMelancholyGrayDecorationQuietnessPensive Author:William C. Bryant
“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.” MenWasteOceanGreenRoundsMelancholyGraySolemnTombsMeadowsDecorationQuietnessPensive Author:William C. Bryant
“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.” KnowsEarthFormSidesSpaceSeaSkyEffectsWasteOceanIncreaseEnvironmentalGlassesMidstBottlesPlasticPollutionDecayImmenseTechnologicalTwistedAutomobileHazardsFiltersPumpsOuter SpaceSide EffectsSyntheticPesticidesAluminumHerbicidesRadioactive WasteAluminum Cans Author:Alvin Toffler
“If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.” IfsWaterRiskWasteOceanEnvironmentalCompoundsRadioactive Waste Author:Arthur B. Robinson
“Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.” MenWorldUseEarthResultsMillionsSkyPlanetsWasteOceanCreatingPercentResourcesAreasRiversNuclearGlobal WarmingToxicEighty Author:Benjamin Creme
“We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.” WasteOceanUrban Author:Serge Dedina
“I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCommonAirShareProduceWasteOceanStarvingEqualizer Author:Brett Dennen
“There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!” WorldMadeMovingSpeakWaterKnownMillionsCasesFiveAirWasteOceanPressureForgottenCurrentsOur WorldPlasticSoupSpinningSpiralsDiscardedSpinning AroundOcean Currents Author:Brandon Boyd
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.” WorldMadeWould BeLastsSilenceMountainWasteOceanDestructionSecularSweeping Book:The Road Source: The Road
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” BornDarkDarknessAirFlowerBearsWasteOceanDesertGrayRaysUnseenSweetnessCavesSereneGems Author:Thomas Gray
“And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.” IfsMatterCareWasteOceanHidingWasting TimeI CareDeclarations Of Love Book:Black Ice Source: Black Ice
“I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.” ThinkingRightsPrayingGayWasteOceanOkayVoteCandidatesToxicDumpUterusToxic Waste Author:Sophia Bush
“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.” FirstsForceMy OwnGriefAwarenessWasteOceanFirst TimeWeightIndifferentLimitlessBoundlessStarksStranded Author:John Banville
“Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?” MenWayHumansMayHas BeensSoulHelpingLawLostSocialMoralDarknessSeaGoes OnWasteOceanPrisonMiseryDepthCastsJailCorpsesHuman SoulProgressionHuman SocietyReviveUnfathomableRemorselessPrison System Book:Les Misérables Source: Les Misérables
“All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.” NeedsAmericaLevelsDiseaseWasteOceanLowsUnderstoodNuclearRadiationSprinklesNuclear Waste Author:Arthur B. Robinson
“Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.” CountryCertainWasteOceanFishesFleshNuclearPoisonousNuclear Waste Author:Sathya Sai Baba