8 Quotes by Sandra Steingraber

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

I’m beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you’ve just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state’s scientists.

The time trends and spatial features of cancer’s occurrence around the globe clearly belie the notion that cancer is a random misfortune. Cancer associates with westernization. Whereas forty years ago, cancer was mostly a disease of wealthy nations, half of all cancers now occur in developing nations, particularly those rapidly industrializing.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.