Quotes and Sayings about Trash & Garbage

With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can.

I set the rules and you follow them. Blindly. Okay? And if you have a problem with that, then you can talk to our complaint department. It's a trash can.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Oh, I love trash!
Anything dirty or dingy or dusty
Anything ragged or rotten or rusty
Yes, I love trash!

This Earth, our home, seems to become a gigantic garbage dump.

What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Nature has to be felt.

We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.

We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Nature gives so much more than it asks for in return.

Nature's my religion. Earth's my church. Loving every creature is my belief.

These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Change the System! Not the Climate!

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

There can be no lasting prosperity for our people, if we do not protect our planet.

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

Protecting the climate and nature is one of the biggest challenges of our time that we can only tackle together.

In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can't wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it's time to act!

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

I don't accept the Republicans' argument that boldly addressing climate change and having the world's strongest economy are incompatible. I believe that the exact opposite of that is true. Tackling our climate challenges will provide us with the opportunity to grow our economy, protect public health, and propel the United States to become the world leader in green innovation in the 21st century.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

Michael: "You will be thin. You won't drool over pizza like an animal anymore. You will find love."
Kevin: "Michael, I'm pretty much okay with who I am now."
Michael: "Don't be. You should never settle for who you are."

Holly and I are like Romeo and Juliet. And this office is like the dragon that kept them apart.

This must be an opportunity to start bridging divides and restoring trust, based on the equal rights and freedoms of every single member of humanity's eight-billion-strong family.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Pam: "Jim and I have never and will never have sex in the office."
Jim: "No, because the office isn't what I'd consider a romantic place."
Pam: "Besides, we have something those other people don't have, which is a home and a bed."
Jim: "And a shower."

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

[Asked why he lives in a trash can] Well, the rent is cheap and I love trash, so I figured I would be close to it if I lived in a trash can myself.

Elmo thinks it's important to be kind because if you're kind to somebody, then they'll be kind to somebody, and it goes on and on and on.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

What's the problem? Grunting is scientifically proven to add more power. Ask any female tennis player, or her husband.

I'm not going to tell my nine-months-pregnant wife that I find her replacement objectively attractive. Just like I'm not going to tell my two-year-old daughter that violent video games are objectively more fun. It's true, but it doesn't help anybody.

Jim: "What about and energy drink?"
Pam: "It gets in the breast milk. If I drink it, CeCe drinks it six hours later."
Jim: "It doesn't mean I can't drink it."
Pam: "Well, it does and it doesn't."

Michael: "Phyllis did injure herself, but she injured herself having fun and I don't think she'd trade that memory for anything."
Stanley: "I would like the memory of a day uninterrupted by this nonsense."

Michael: "Excuse me, everyone... Sex! Now that I have your attention...-"
Stanley: "You don't have our attention."
Michael: "Money!"
Stanley: "I'm listening."
Kevin: "You had me at 'Sex'."

I'd rather she be alone than with somebody. Is that love?

Michael's like a movie on a plane. You know, it's not great, but it's something to watch.