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“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.”

“In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.”

Two Three Voice Air New York Shapes Bird England Mere Visible Sugar Rumor New England Sap Maple Bluebird

Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.”

World Mind Persons House Air Inspire Divine Conscious Eternity Impulse Visible Finite Converses

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

“On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.”

Ifs Soul Cities Wonder Millions Air New York Summer Eight Giants Rising Visible New York City Sweat Steam Summer Days Glands

Author:Diane Ackerman

“An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.”

Air Products Civilization Elements Smoke Visible Gas Factories Sewers

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.”

Soul Body Evil Cities Attitude Air Building Built Sick Rose Visible Unconscious Nightmare Barren Wonderland Semblance Apparitions

Author:Allen Ginsberg