I wanted to preserve a few specimens of these delicate zoophytes, but they were merely clouds, shadows, illusions, melting and evaporating outside their native element.
A really important thing to note is the mental health aspects of all this: Seeing and being immersed in these dense clouds of orange-brown smoke — it's unsettling, it's stressful.
In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
I was very good at all kinds of military drill so that people called me Gongsun Sheng, the 'Big Brother.' I then studied the arts of Taoism so that I could command the wind and rain, ride on the mists and clouds.