Waste Quotes

“The second law of ecology is that everything must go somewhere.”

“There's no thief to a bad book.”

“The culture of Washington is a culture of spending.”

“Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.”

“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

“Waste, you know, is the most obsessive theme in my writings.”

“We can see and feel the waste of material things. Awkward, inefficient, or ill-directed movements of men, however, leave nothing visible or tangible behind them.”

“Waste is the single biggest threat to the sustainability of our healthcare system.”

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

“There's no such thing as 'away'. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“The canons of pecuniary decency require a strict adherence to the schedule of conspicuous waste.”

“Jealousy is a horrible thing. It is a waste of time and energy.”