Saving Grace of Clouds

Sunrise on a flight out of Portland, Oregon
By Katelyn Nixon, Cloud Appreciation Society Member 19,485

Consider this a brief respite from social media's ongoing daily bad news barrage. The antidote being to reflect on nature (and by that we mean clouds, of course!).

Let us suppose for a moment that a being, whose eyes were so made that he could see gases as we see liquids, was looking down from a distance upon our earth. He would see an ocean of air, or aerial ocean, all round the globe, with birds floating about in it, and people walking along the bottom, just as we see fish gliding along the bottom of a river... So he would call us all deep-air creatures, just as we talk of deep-sea animals; and if we can imagine that he fished in this air-ocean, and could pull one of us out of it into space, he would find that we should gasp and die just as fishes do when pulled out of the water.

From ‘The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live’ from The Fairy-Land of Science (1883) by Arabella B. Buckley