Robert Ben Garant Quotes

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

I think the air in New York is death.

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.

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.

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.

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.

Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.

I don't want to live in Los Angeles. The city depresses me! It is too flat. There are too many cars.

Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.

Sao Paulo is a dump. That's a known fact.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

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

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.