http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43544-oh-beautiful-for-smoggy-skies-insecticided-grain-for-strip-mined-mountain-s
“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
― George Carlin
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