Smog Quotes

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

  Chuck Jones

  Confused, Fog, Color

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• At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

  Tom Petty

  Twilight, Reality, Rainbow

  Song: All Or Nothin'

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• Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

  Ayn Rand

  Technology, Risk, Environmental

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.152, Penguin

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• Culture is like a smog. To live
  within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
  contaminated.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Culture, Breathe

  Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, p.150, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Dr. Seuss

  Swans, Environment, Poor

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

  Dennis Weaver

  Rain, Kids, Ozone

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• As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

  U Thant

  Future, Air, Skills

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• The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Air, Hot

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.117, Penguin

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• The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Sky, House

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 2, 1962.

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• Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

  Li Keqiang

  Light, Environmental, Development

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• A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

  E. B. White

  Love, Country, Men

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Fog, California

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, People

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• You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mountain

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• It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

  Cesar Chavez

  Moon, Oil, Giving

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Believe, California, Air

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• A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Issues, Abuse

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

  Diablo Cody

  Space, Nadir, Los Angeles

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• I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

  Paula Poundstone

  Senior, Children, Years

  "Lean, Green Fighting Machine". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Cheer, Tired

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Bills, Used

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• Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

  William H. Stewart

  Wind, People, Hazards

  "The Insidious Health Risk You Need To Know About: Noise Pollution" by Carrie Sturrock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2017.

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• The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

  Michael Connelly

  Beautiful, Sunset, Home

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave

  Bob Marley

  Nice, Mean, Long

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Cousin, Attitude, Thinking

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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