Insecticides Quotes

• Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Environmental, Poison

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Estas pulverizaciones, polvos y aerosoles se aplican ahora casi universalmente en granjas, jardines, bosques y hogares: productos químicos no selectivos que tienen el poder de matar a todos los insectos, los "buenos" y los "malos", de acallar el canto de los pájaros y el salto de los peces en los arroyos, de cubrir las hojas con una película mortal y de permanecer en el suelo, todo ello aunque el objetivo previsto sean sólo unas pocas malas hierbas o insectos. ¿Puede alguien creer que es posible arrojar semejante aluvión de venenos sobre la superficie de la tierra sin hacerla inservible para la vida? No deberían llamarse "insecticidas", sino "biocidas".

  Rachel Carson

  Hierba, Canción, Creer

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). "La casa de la vida: Rachel Carson en acción"

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• I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

  Werner Herzog

  Steps, Killing, Genocide

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• Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

  Rachel Carson

  Healthy, Matter, Soil

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

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• I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about 10 years ago, the WHO came out with a statement promoting it for public health interventions in many countries. It's cheap. It's very, very effective. We've never had an insecticide that has worked so well since. It's also safe. A lot of people don't realize that its toxicity profile for humans is low.

  Laura Harrington

  País, Pensamiento, Años

  "La atención se centra en repeler los mosquitos portadores del zika y el dengue". "Morning Edition" con Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. 2 de febrero de 2016.

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• No cabe duda de que la selección natural funciona. Explica cómo las bacterias adquieren resistencia a los antibióticos; explicará cómo los insectos adquieren resistencia a los insecticidas, pero no explica cómo se obtienen bacterias o insectos en primer lugar.

  William A. Dembski

  Antibiotics, Bacteria, Gains

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• The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Animal, Lakes, Land

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.17, South End Press

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• Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

  Winona LaDuke

  Brother, Powerful, Air

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• Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

  Sandra Newman

  Giving, People, Taste

  Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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• The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

  William A. Dembski

  Want, Resistance, Firsts

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• Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.

  Joe Nichols

  Teacher, School, Dark

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• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Water

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• Tenga cuidado con los productos químicos manufacturados, desde luego. Tu seguridad y tu salud a largo plazo son más importantes que nada. Pero no olvides que si cultivas aunque sea una docena de plantas diferentes, estás rodeado de química. Dentro de sus células, incluso las plantas más corrientes crean potentes fungicidas, insecticidas, irritantes, bálsamos, alucinógenos, sedantes, toxinas nerviosas, estimulantes de la reparación celular, señuelos, repelentes... lo que se te ocurra. ¡Trata a todas las plantas con respeto!

  Janet Macunovich

  Células, Nombres, Largos

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• I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Jobs, Agency, Drawing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Falling In Love, Lying

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