Tropical Quotes:

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

- Ezra Stiles

topic: Tropical, Elsewhere

I am a tropical black man.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Men, Black, Tropical

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

- Matthew Fox

topic: Paradise, Kind, Tropical

Tropical rainforests [are] the only place you can go nowadays and not get ‘friended.’

- Rives

topic: Tropical, Rainforest

I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.

- Werner Herzog

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Rain, Cameras, Tropical, Sturdy, Celluloid

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

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Attitude, Mind, Needs, Frigid, Everglades

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

topic: Rain, Animal, Tree, Tropical

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

topic: Flower, Adventure, Eye, Tropical

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Home, Joy, Should, Domesticity, Tropical

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

topic: Together, Valleys, Sun, Tropical

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

- James Lovelock

topic: Rain, Cutting, Forests, Rainfall, Tropical

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

topic: Air, Rooms, Body, Tropical

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

topic: Home, Would Be, Looks, Bronze, Sun Kissed

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

- Anais Nin

topic: Night, Hammocks, Lovers, Tropical

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

topic: Beach, People, Bird, Stranded, Tropical

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Islands, Keys, Paradise, Tropical, Tropical Islands

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

topic: God, Men, Solitude, Sublimity, Primeval

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

- Lydia Davis

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

topic: Storm, One Day, May, Tropical

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

- Carl Schurz

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

topic: Country, People, United States, Tropical

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

- Jane Goodall

topic: Way, Forests, Global Warming, Tropical, Slowing

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

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Burning, Dinner, Painting, Rainforest, Tropical

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

topic: Art, Lying, Book, Tropical, Tropical Islands

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

topic: Loss, Differences, Profound, Platitudes, Profound Truth

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

- Rem Koolhaas

source: "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

topic: School, Thinking, Air, Ventilation, Tropical

The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.

- Louis Agassiz

topic: Summer, Home, Winter, Equator, Tropical

The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Sweet, Winter, New Orleans, Molasses, Dry Ice

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

topic: Animal, West, Plant, West Africa, Domesticated Animals

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

topic: Wine, Issues, Rhinos, Logging, Tropical

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

topic: Hope, Grief, Love You, Charming Smile, Tropical

Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

- Christopher Landsea

topic: Doubt, Trends, Casting, Cyclones, Linkages

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

topic: Business, Thinking, Patterns, Tropical

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

topic: Love, Summer, Spring, Tropical, Green Fields

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

topic: Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain, Rainforest, Tropical

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Rain, Years, Historical, Strongholds, Flowering

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

topic: Vietnam, Might, Able, Tropical

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

- Peter Agre

topic: Winter, Careers, Long, Exotic Places, Tropical

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

- Helen Fisher

topic: Flower, Smell, Clothes, Plants And Flowers, Tropical

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Song, Thinking, Three, Buffett, Tropical

There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

- Alex Webb

topic: Light, Creative, Culture, Indigenous Culture, Rawness

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

- Carmen Electra

topic: Summer, Islands, Hot, Tropical, Tropical Islands

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

- George Carlin

topic: Teacher, Stupid, Rocks, Third Grade, Guatemala

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

- Mary Hunter Austin

source: Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.11, Rutgers University Press

topic: Rain, Flower, Land, Flora, Tropical

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2282, Delphi Classics

topic: Country, Men, Fire, Volley, Tropical

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

topic: Summer, Song, Nature, Crocodiles, Hydra

If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

- M. E. W. Sherwood

topic: Beautiful, Ocean, Tired, Monte Carlo, Villa

for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

- Fredrika Bremer

source: Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books

topic: Food, Good Friend, People, Very Good Friends, Tropical

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

- Chang-Rae Lee

topic: Offering, Perfect, Asian, Tropical

Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.

- Leatrice Eiseman

topic: Ocean, Blue, Feelings, Scuba, Energizing

The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

- Tod Wodicka

topic: Squares, Sky, Purple, Tropical

I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the next room, the guests complain about the sudden increase in temperature. Fans are drawn from colorful bags, fluttering like tropical birds.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Air, Bird, Fans, Missed You, Tropical

He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.” “Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ” “Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.

- James Patterson

source: James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.297, Random House

topic: Sexy, Sweat, Smell, Grime, Tropical