Air

photography by HEINZ PETER KNES Olivier Zahm, art director — Peta C. Kisur, stylist   At the edge of civilization the untrammeled wilderness begins. Forests, the planet’s lungs, reach for sky as the trees struggle with each other for light. Civilization integrates forces of nature—atmospheric, tidal, thermal, geologic; some of their members retain respect for this fragile ecosystem and for forests’ dark, looming splendor. Natural landscape, infused by the breath of Earth, has inspired musicians from Ravel to Bob Dylan, artists from Chardin to Robert Smithson, photographers from Ansel Adams to Andreas Gursky, architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, and even designers who reincorporate nature into style and technology. And just as air is crucial to the perpetuation of our planet’s ecosystem, so too does it energize our bodies, empower our minds, vitalize our hearts and stir our souls – in short, nothing less than the very breath of…