Noise Pollution Quotes

I rant and rave about 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.

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

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

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

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.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

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.

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

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 so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.