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Wind, or air in motion, is a great worker and wonder-worker. It tosses the tree tops, whirls the dust, carries vapor clouds to make rain, scatters seeds. It turns the long arms of windmills and sends sailing vessels flying over the water. It waits for nobody. It says how-do-you-do and good-by, and is gone. There isn't a bit of use to get out of humor with it, if it blows our hats off and turns umbrellas wrong side out. The wind can't help blowing. It is being pushed and jostled about itself. Besides it has the most important work in the world to do—keeping air in motion and purifying it. So get off the track. Wind has the right of way. See Air, page 33; Respiration, 1602.
