Airborne Particles 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.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood and meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions - and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well.

Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value

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.

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.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.