“the frenzy of avarice… poisoning our children, and blasting the cultivable surface… into a treeless waste of ashes.”
John Ruskin, 1876
“… the new mill in all its frowning and dirty ugliness: a great brick building straddling the stream, which it fouled with a steaming and stinking outflow … they pour out filth a purpose; they’ve fouled all the lower Water, and it’s getting down into Brandywine. If they want to make the Shire into a desert, they’re going the right way about it.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, 1956
“…the river foams. She is churning mix of sewage, industrial effluents, and chemicals which makes her froth… The farmers who rely on it have little choice, and even less voice.”
– Madhuri Mandava, 2025
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