Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

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

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.

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

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

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

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

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

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

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

I have always seen pollution as theft.

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years.

The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

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.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

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