“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.” FirstsMadeLightLastsPerfectMorningWindSummerLowsRainFingersWarmBrilliantGoodbyeAutumnBootsThickOrangeChillSunnySockFickleHueScarletCrispsPalateMoodyCopperScarvesSunny DayMy True LoveJumpersAutumn DaysWellington Author:Alys Fowler
“The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.” MadeHardSongSoundEventsFieldsSummerRainSurfaceIsolatedMultitudesAugustTotalityHailCollisionCicadas Book:Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition Source: Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
“It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned pink. The bride later said that this picture made the rainy day totally worth it!” MadeSaidSunSkyDogRainCatSettingSettingsWorth ItBridesRainyRainy DayReceptionCat And DogNon Stop Author:Julie Roberts
“I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.” IfsWantFeelsMadeCharacterHalfReaderDramaRainBirthdaySugarBleakness Author:George Saunders
“I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain – and it’s possible that a man slipped in. There’d be no way of knowing.” MenWayMadeKnowingRainCreedsHomosexualityMudOffended Author:Creed Bratton
“Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.” MenMadeCausesStudyAirConditionsEventsDegreesProjectsResearchPercentRainAreasScientistBiggerIncreaseSevenClimate ChangeHeavyExtremesStormSnowWeatherGlobal WarmingRegionsTriggersTemperatureIntriguingMoistureRainfallExtreme WeatherRain And SnowHeavy Rain Author:Al Gore
“Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.” WayMadeImportantFormEnergyDifficultSpaceSunRocksMaterialsRainIndependentCalmSnowWeatherVisibleWorking ItTouchingSurroundingsMistInseparableHail Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?” HeartLittlesMadeHomeFacesJoyAirStreetsMetsCreaturesSingingRainSeasonsSnowGoldenMidstComing HomeSheerPouringMeadowsCalendarsDesolateJoy Of LivingSeasons Of LifeSmiling FacesSheer JoyGolden DaysPouring Rain Book:Old Rose and Silver Source: Old Rose and Silver
“Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?” IfsThinkingMindMadeStatesFightingEvilUnitedUnited StatesRainTerrorProtectionInnocentImmoralInfrastructureCiviliansAfghan Author:George Lakoff
“When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMadeAgeMotherCitiesSunMountainRainStonesRootsGlassesBonesStuckCuresIronMetalsConcreteSeptemberSteelRubbishStainsUnstableThighsDumpPierceRustBronzeDamsSplintersPlastersTow Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.” IfsKnowsMenShouldMadeFallFoundExampleBlessingRainGratefulHungerDisappointmentExpectedCurseAbundanceMisfortunesAnticipationDisguiseBe GratefulBlessings In Disguise Author:Saint Basil