Air Quote by Theophrastus

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything…

— Diogenes Laertius

“To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in itself: ……

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well…

— Ovid

After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

— Janet Kauffman

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as…

— William Henry Bragg

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man…

— John Tyndall

“The air was full of human essence, of artificial enticement, of coquetry, indolence, pleasure—the man-made sense of existence.”

— O. Henry

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

— Eugene Delacroix

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

— Richard Louv