Camelford Water Pollution Incident/health Effects

Famous quotes containing the words water, pollution, incident, health and/or effects:

    “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
    after thee, O God.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm XLII (l. XLII, 1)

    “Like the effects of industrial pollution ... the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.””
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)