"As I stood there on the top of the world and I thought of the hundreds of men who had lost their lives in the effort to reach it [North Pole], I felt profoundly grateful that I had the honor of representing my race."

"Zero impact in a fragile land. The only ethic that should be tolerated in the Arctic."

"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."

"Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man’s dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea."

"Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nipping and an eager air."

"Each individuals needs 12 cubic feet of air everyday to survive."

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

"So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name..."

"“The risks from air pollution are now far greater than previously thought or understood, particularly for heart disease and strokes,” says Dr Maria Neira, Director of WHO’s Department for Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. “Few risks have a greater impact on global health today than air pollution; the evidence signals the need for concerted action to clean up the air we all breathe.”"

"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue."

"The air in music the wing forsakes."

"Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon."

"Like the fire that needs the air, I won't burn unless you're there."

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

"According to the data presented in the paper, about three-eighths of the Chinese population breathe air that would be rated “unhealthy” by United States standards. The most dangerous of the pollutants studied were fine airborne particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which can find their way deep into human lungs, be absorbed into the bloodstream and cause a host of health problems, including asthma, strokes, lung cancer and heart attacks."

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear— My arms unstained and free from scars."

"Air, air, fresh life-blood, thin and searching air, The clear, dear breath of God that loveth us."

"AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor."

"And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes."

"His love was like the liberal air,— Embracing all, to cheer and bless; And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness."

"Air pollution is a problem for much of the developing world and is believed to kill more people worldwide than AIDS, malaria, breast cancer, or tuberculosis. Airborne particulate matter (PM) is especially detrimental to health, and has previously been estimated to cause between 3 and 7 million deaths every year, primarily by creating or worsening cardiorespiratory disease. Particulate sources include electric power plants, industrial facilities, automobiles, biomass burning, and fossil fuels used in homes and factories for heating. In China, air pollution was previously estimated to contribute to 1.2 to 2 million deaths annually."

"When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

"Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud."

"Mud is mankind in the moulding, Heaven's mystery unfolding"

"O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud."

"Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain."

"I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child."

"Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages."

"Stony seaboard, far and foreign, Stony hills poured over space, Stony outcrop of the Burren, Stones in every fertile place, Little fields with boulders dotted, Grey-stone shoulders saffron-spotted, Stone-walled cabins thatched with reeds, Where a Stone Age people breeds The last of Europe's stone age race."

"There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern."

"Under every stone lurks a politician."

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

"Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart."

"Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue."

"Sagrada Familia...is the greatest piece of creative architecture in the last twenty-five years. It is spirit symbolised in stone!"

"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert."

"You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity—for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"

"In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other."

"With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."

"Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, Otherwise kill me."

"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage."

"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"

"[Kicking a large stone] I refute it thus."

"Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"

"Oh! que no suis-je de pierre comme toi!"

"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor ever shall be."

"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."