Lyall Watson Quotes

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

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.

I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

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

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

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.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

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

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

I think the air in New York is death.

There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you're always looking through a haze of pollution. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, and being able to see the surface, you know, I would say definitely those areas that I mentioned look kind of sick.

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

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

I love that smell of the emissions!

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

In Washington, the air quality today was described as 'red.'...You know what 'red' is? It's bad for everyone. Not just old people, sick people and babies. When it's just bad for old people, sick people and babies, that's called a Republican budget.

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.