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© 2009 Tammy Lu

“The ‘atmosphere’ (…) designates this gaseous layer that envelops solid Earth and that makes us all ‘students of the air’ (…). (…) [W]hat we share with all other living beings is the destiny of being nurtured on air. Air is the absolute teacher and the education it gives us is constitutive and infinitely discreet. It never speaks, but it brings everything together and makes everything possible.”

Peter Sloterdijk, “Foreword to the Theory of Spheres“ [PDF], in  Cosmograms (2005) by Melik Ohanian and Jean-Christophe Royoux