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“A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.”

Source: Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)

“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 itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”

Mean Two War Wanted Science Secret Half Mankind Comfort Draws Ears Climate Warm Miles Circles Boat Heat Canada Carrie Coal Rail Calcutta Tropics Labradors

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of 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 us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.”

Cutting Source Comfortable Raises Distance Forests Ignorant Beef Pastures Tropics

Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“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, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics”

Men Wells Shows He Man Prison Stranger Ice Occasions Prisoner Amusement Spectators Lumps Tropics

Author: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 those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.”

Ifs World Stills Hands Sex Grief Known Havens Lucky Crosses Absolutes Division Divides Unlucky Tropics

Book:Levels of Life

Source: Levels of Life

“Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.”

Home Lost Lines Poet Lovers Stranger Vulnerability Mary Tickets Traveler Tense Visionaries Edgy Recovering Tropics

Author: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 to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.”

Way Humans Certain Mines Masters Agree Notion Dinner Fixed Behave Sanity Dressings Jungle Englishmen Clearing Tropics Baboons

Author: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 and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”

Book Home Running Time Imagination Travel Theatre Running Away Palms Tourism Travel And Tourism Tropics Hedgerows

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of 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 occurs when air is sucked in strongly with the back of the hand held in front of the mouth. It is therefore incorrect to say that I have copied the cyclones and typhoons of the tropics.”

I Can Hands Force Air Fronts Mouths Currents Cooling Tropics Cyclones Typhoons

Book:The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.”

Night Fall Twilight Curtains Tropics

Author: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 numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.”

Ifs Knows Lost Numbers Tree Areas Species Rate Currents Forests Damn Parks Weed Cents Beaten Extinction Reefs Tropics Bios Coral Reefs Grasslands

Author: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. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.”

People Football Cold Scene Tough Balls Weather All Time Unbelievable Catching Sunny Catchers Tropics Cold Weather

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...”

“...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.”