Sunita Williams Quotes

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.

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.

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

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

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

We are human and our nature is to air...

Please leave the window open.

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

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I'm a big foodie! I eat, like, three times a day... but most of all, I'm a breathie. Breathing air? That's the best thing in the world! I couldn't go two minutes without breathing.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

… the lungs of London

Coal fired power plants emit particulates which cause respitory problems.