Tropical Quotes

• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Animal, Tree

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• All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Attitude, Mind, Needs

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• Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland.

  Walt Disney

  Flower, Adventure, Eye

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• We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Together, Valleys, Sun

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.176, Hackett Publishing

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• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Joy, Should

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

  James Lovelock

  Rain, Cutting, Forests

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• I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Air, Body, Rooms

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• My favorite look would be a fresh, dewy face with a bronze, sun-kissed glow. It looks so tropical and reminds me of a place that feels like true home.

  Mya

  Home, Would Be, Looks

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• People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

  Carrie Fisher

  Beach, People, Bird

  "The Skinny On My New Life" by Carrie Fisher, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

  Anais Nin

  Night, Hammocks, Lovers

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• Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

  Gloria Swanson

  Islands, Keys, Paradise

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• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

  Ezra Stiles

  Elsewhere, Regions

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• Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

  Lydia Davis

  Storm, One Day, May

  Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Nature, Science

  Charles Darwin (1879). “What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle".”

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• Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, People, United States

  Carl Schurz (1969). “December 13, 1870-February 27, 1874”

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• The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Forests, Global Warming

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• Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

  E. O. Wilson

  Burning, Dinner, Painting

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• I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

  Peter Singer

  Art, Lying, Book

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• There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

  George Orwell

  Loss, Differences, Profound

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1999). “A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  David Suzuki

  Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain

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• Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

  Stephen King

  Business, Thinking, Patterns

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• China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

  Mark Carwardine

  Wine, Rhinos, Issues

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• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

  Tony Hillerman

  House, Vietnam, Might

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• Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Literature, West

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• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Hope, Grief, Love You

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