Joseph Priestley Quotes

Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

I'm a big foodie! I eat, like, three times a day... but most of all, I'm a breathie. Breathing air? That's the best thing in the world! I couldn't go two minutes without breathing.

We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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

The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

Please leave the window open.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

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.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.