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利玛窦明朝末年写北京的尘土说：“Few streets are paved with Bricke or stone, so that in Winter dirt, and dust in Summer, are very offensive: and because it raineth there seldome, the ground is all crumbled into dust, and if any wind blow, it enters every Roome”。到了光绪间，Harry de Windt说，英国谚语谓英国人死前要吃一大堆灰尘，北京人嚥最后一口气之前吃得更多：“If we, in England, must eat, according to the proverb, a peck of dirt before we die, I feel convinced that the inhabitants of Pekin swallow at least a hunderdweight before their last hour. The dust of Pekin is, next to its smells, its greatest curse...”民国二十五年，Peter Fleming把北京当牛津：“Peking - in this, as in several other ways, curiously resembling Oxford - can usually be relied upon to be characteristic”。然后是一九六六年十年浩劫之前的景观，James Cameron清晨五点钟陶醉在雾里的北京，说是彷彿步入明清水墨的淡彩之中，柔美而阴森：“At five in the morning Peking has a disembodied air; its strange pearly quality achieves no sort of shape in the half-light; its outlines are blurred and misty; it is rather like existing within a seventeenth century Chinese water-colour. It is lovely, but eerie”。文革之后的一九七九年，一位澳洲商人说北京灰濛濛，真该有一批油漆推销员来做做生意：“You know what this place needs - a few good paint salesmen”。

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