{"quotes":[{"text":"The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.","author":"Luke Taylor","tags":["air","car","city","coal","curse","diesel","drill-bit","fog","gasoline","grimy","heart","heatbeat","man","noise","petrol","pollution","rules","smog","street","vehicle","window"],"id":1543,"author_id":"Luke+Taylor"},{"text":"I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","canada-day","cape-breton","coal","country","hazardous","home","life","living","nova-scotia","patriot","pollution","steel","sydney-tar-ponds","toxic"],"id":6498,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.","author":"Charles Duhigg","tags":["stronger","pollution","through "],"id":12892,"author_id":"Charles+Duhigg"},{"text":"The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["earth","earth-day","earth-day","earth-day","earth","environment","environment-pollution","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-protection","environmentalism","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","pollute","polluted","pollution","pollution","pollution","pollutions","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":22901,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["earth","earth-day","earth-day","earth-day","earth","environment","environment-pollution","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-protection","environmentalism","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","pollute","polluted","pollution","pollution","pollution","pollutions","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":22901,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["earth","earth-day","earth-day","earth-day","earth","environment","environment-pollution","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-protection","environmentalism","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","pollute","polluted","pollution","pollution","pollution","pollutions","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":22901,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","dream","girl","nuclear","pollution","rainbow","science","smog","storm","surreal","teenager"],"id":35749,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or mica, had eased into the Valley from the industrial region to the north and there were nights when the sun set at the western horizon as if it were sinking through a porous red mass, and there were days when a hard-glaring moon like bone remained fixed in a single position, prominent in the sky. ('Family').","author":"Joyce Carol Oates","tags":["moon","pollution","sun"],"id":39018,"author_id":"Joyce+Carol+Oates"},{"text":"The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.","author":"Eddie Bernice Johnson","tags":["pollution","human","air "],"id":41175,"author_id":"Eddie+Bernice+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}