Age Quote by John Evelyn

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

— Munir Butt

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs,…

— Oscar Wilde

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...

— Alexis Carrel

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become…

— Claude Monet

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.

— Robert Orben

As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest…

— Sadiq Khan

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

— Sándor Márai

London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is…

— William Hazlitt

It's a big deal in my city to have a breath of fresh air.

— Donnis