air

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil--that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That's a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight.

He lives most life who breathes most air.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy of the sun. Although there was a sequence in the formation of the land sphere, the atmosphere, the water sphere, and the life sphere, these have so interacted with one another in the shaping of the Earth that we must somehow think of these as all present to one another and interacting from the beginning.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Inebriate of Air - am I -
And Debauchee of Dew -
Reeling - thro endless summer days -
From inns of Molten Blue -