Annual Quote by Joan Didion

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience,…

— Bernard DeVoto

“The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West’s trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest…

— Pankaj Mishra

Every rainfall is sometimes a blessing.

— Xiang16

The days are done of heat and drought. Upon the stricken plain; the wind has shifted right about, and brought the welcome rain.

— Anonymous

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

— Mark Twain

The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things…

— A. P. Herbert

“In the past 100 years alone, the region experienced three devastating droughts. The first stretched from 1910 to 1916; the second stretched from 1941…

— Heidi Cullen

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.

— Peter Gleick

We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.

— Harry Carpenter

Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published…

— Al Gore

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I…

— Paolo Bacigalupi