deep-air

Updated: May 18, 2025

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.

Arabella B. Buckley - The Fairy-Land of Science