Noise Pollution Quotes:

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

- Robert Carlyle

topic: Noise, Rave, Pollution, Rant, Noise Pollution

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

- Robert Orben

source: Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.266, Doubleday

topic: Cities, Jet Planes, Noise, Monasteries, Noise Pollution

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

- A. J. Jacobs

topic: Years, Europe, Organization, World Health Organization, Noise Pollution

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Music, Beautiful, Silence, Environmental Pollution, Beautiful Music

The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

- Tara Brown

topic: Long, Forever, World, Inhale, Noise Pollution

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

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Business, Ignorant, Politics, Water Pollution, Natural Environment

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.

- Robert Orben

source: "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

topic: Fun, Air, Environment, Inspirational Earth, Water Pollution

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

- Scott McClellan

topic: Atmosphere, Church, Toxic, Noise Pollution

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

topic: Long, Noise, Bears, Noise Pollution

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.

- Thomas Ehrlich

topic: Pollution, Water Pollution, Noise Pollution

Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Past, Men, Air, Ecological Balance, Noise Pollution

It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? What’s the point? It’s like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! There’s a lot of noise pollution, in that sense.

- Stephen Dewaele

source: "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

topic: Kids, Phones, Noise, Noise Pollution