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Quotes About Oxygen

Altitude sickness, also known as mountain sickness, is caused by a lack of oxygen at great heights. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. Climbers traveling up Mount Erebus train for days by climbing to gradually increasing heights.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)
~ Mary Roach
As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) Space
~ Mary Roach
But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
When those parts became available, the discovery of oxygen entered the realm of the adjacent possible.
~ Steven Johnson
Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.
~ Jordan Belfort
stilling—very still—breathing into this oxygen which also pockets my looking hard, just that, takes it in, also my thinking which I try to seal off, my humanity, I was not a mistake is what my humanity thinks, I cannot go somewhere else than this body…
~ Jorie Graham
This mask is attached to pure oxygen, which is thought to be very beneficial to someone suffering a diving injury, and to their chances of recovery," Dave recited. "I suggest you breathe the oxygen, but the choice is entirely yours.
~ Bernie Chowdhury
Without trees, we cannot inhabit the earth.
~ Bill Mollison
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
~ Dave Barry
The mind splices fragments of sensation and language into story after story. The blood in my veins and every blade of grass is oxygen, sugar, photosynthesis, genetic expression, electrochemistry, and time. I watch clouds crush the last bit of pink sky. Breath slips even as I inhale, even as snow falls out of season and mud thaws, even as lightning ignites a late spring.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Seawater is about 0.5–0.9 percent oxygen at the surface. Most marine animals use gills to get this oxygen into their bodies. A
~ Hal Whitehead
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
~ Frank Shorter
I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I didn't say a word. He wouldn't be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
~ Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
~ Anton Chekhov
Forests are the lungs of our land.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
~ Anton Chekhov
When we exhale, a tree breathes in.
~ Les Stroud
The trees must breathe so I can breathe.
~ Deepak Chopra
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
~ Ronald Reagan
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.
~ Jonathan Weiner
all of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined by general weak tittering, the oxygen levels of which I was more used to.
~ Simon Winder
Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.
~ Jaggi Vasudev