Air Movement Quotes

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

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

Music is just air moving around.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

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.

The winds are out of breath.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

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

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the Airport. But, the growth in movement of goods by air means that cargo capacity needs to be improved. And I am quite certain that we will do it.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)