2 GOOD HEALTH 



possibly can. Yet even these pearl divers cannot go 

 without breathing for over four minutes at a time. 



In fact, there is no way for any of us really to stop 

 breathing for a long time and keep alive. It is the same 

 with animals. 



If you should hold a bird in your hand, and if he were 

 perfectly quiet and did not even breathe, you would know 



BREATHING WHILE HE SLEEPS 



that he was dead, for breathing is as important for birds 

 and animals as for children and men. 



No one needs to tell us that what we breathe every 

 minute of every day is air. It is around us everywhere, 

 like a wonderful ocean that we cannot see. It also 

 stretches so far above us and above the clouds that, 

 try as we may, we cannot get outside of it. 



