Rat poison, chemical waste, and pollution (E. B. White)
January 24th, 2007 | Published in Nature, Ecology, Quotes
I belong to a small, unconventional school that believes that no rat poison is the correct amount to spread in the kitchen where children and puppies can get at it. I believe that no chemical waste is the correct amount to discharge into the fresh rivers of the world, and I believe that if there is a way to trap the fumes from factory chimneys, it should be against the law to set these deadly fumes adrift where they can mingle with fog…
–E. B. White, “Sootfall and Fallout” (1956) in Essays of E.B. White (1977), p. 93