# Quote — James Nestor, Breath

> I went to Greece to write a story on ... When most people go underwater... they bail out at ten feet... ears screaming. The freedivers told me they'd previously been "most people." ...To freedive, they said, all anyone had to do was master the art of breathing.

- 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-went-to-greece

## 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-nestor/breath/s-omething-happened-i-t.md)