Airborne Particulates Quotes

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

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.

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.

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

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Half of Americans breathe air that is unhealthy.

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

… the lungs of London

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.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

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.