Lester R. Brown Quotes

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

Our children should not have to draw the breath of life in a city awash in pollution.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

I think the air in New York is death.

Banning smoking in vehicles with children in them will help protect them from the misery of smoking-related diseases, from cancer to asthma and emphysema.

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.

Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.