John Perry Barlow Quotes

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 think the air in New York is death.

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.

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.

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

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.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

To save my live I cannot see what right we have to control the air that God Almighty gave the people.

Experimental evidence [shows strongly] that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance [to health.]

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

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

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.

I believe that cleansing and hydrating is extremely important, especially with the environment's condition and the pollution around.

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

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.

I love that smell of the emissions!

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

Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

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

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

Coal is my worst nightmare.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.