# Quote — James Nestor, Breath

> I read through reams of literature on the subject. ...The problem was, the sources were hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years old.

- Author: [James Nestor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor.md)
- Book: [Breath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Nestor_(writer)#Breath:_The_New_Science_of_a_Lost_Art_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/i-read-through

## More from this book

> "There are as many ways to breath as there are foods to eat," said one... instructor... Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nourish our brains... others hasten our death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/there-are-as-many.md)

> I looked for... verification... recent research in ... but found next to nothing... breathing technique wasn't important. ...Pulmonologists work mainly on ...maladies of the lungs ...collapse, cancer, emphysema.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/i-looked-for.md)

> [S]omething happened. ...[I]t was as if I'd been taken from one place and deposited somewhere else. It happened in an instant. ...I had somehow sweated through my clothes as if I'd just run a marathon.

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