Florence Nightingale Quotes

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

Ventilation is needed to ensure we get air disbursed throughout the Station. Air stagnates without flow, so it is essential to have good ventilation so one doesn't end up in a bubble of CO2 by accident and then not be able to breathe.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

I like to get fresh air.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

Please leave the window open.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Keep the windows open to the East.

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

We have fans that circulate air in the cabin of the module of the space shuttle. They're running all the time. They're absolutely necessary because, otherwise, you will breathe your own CO2 and intoxicate yourself quite fast.

I can't live in a room without a window.

I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station, but there's nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule.

I'm an avid bicyclist, so I catch some sun while I'm out bicycling.

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.