Tropics Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of… — Dan Aykroyd
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables… — Gary Snyder
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators,… — Lewis Tappan
Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and… — Julian Barnes
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted… — Dennis Nurkse
It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time… — Wilfrid
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… — George Eliot
I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as… — Viktor Schauberger
There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain. — Waldemar Young
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in… — Stuart L. Pimm
People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable.… — Jim Harbaugh
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and… — James Dwight Dana
...I will praise the English climate till I dieâ€”even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. — Manuel Puig
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the… — Bruno Tonioli
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;… — Theodore Roosevelt
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the… — John Greenleaf Whittier

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