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Quotes About Atmosphere

Another thunderstorm crosses the Ridings. The sky is rusty water and the trees have blurred to ink. Fat raindrops hammer on the blanket and soak through his steaming clothes; there is wet wool and sweat and the electric scent of the storm carried in with the rising wind.
~ Helen Macdonald
Low clouds move fast over the Ridings. It is raining hard. The cattle lie under the trees in the gale, their flanks dark and soaked, their breaths steaming in the air.
~ Helen Macdonald
The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.
~ Helen Macdonald
Down at the edge of Mexican town, where the pavement gave out and the yellow dust drifted ankle-deep over the hard-packed adobe, a radio was moaning a dreamy beat into the night. It was the kind of music that needs two people, but only one was listening...
~ Helen Nielsen
Lily was a bunch of crumpled pockets and Sylvie is a black dress, perfumed scarves, iron posture and whatever else turns a person into an atmosphere.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Fall. Rain. Wind. Depressing! And it was only going to get worse. Chilly, overcast weather was forecast for the rest of November. Then again, October had been beautiful. The autumn leaves glowing red, yellow, and orange; glorious sunshine; blue skies; and a wonderful crispness in the air. But unfortunately those days were gone. It was the first week in November; dead leaves swirled around in the wind, rain clouds hung low over Gothenburg, and the contours of the city dissolved in the damp mist.
~ Helene Tursten
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the spiritual world the subtle influences which form and transform the soul are Heredity and Environment. And here especially, where all is invisible, where much that we feel to be real is yet so ill-defined, it becomes of vital practical moment to clarify the atmosphere as far as possible with conceptions borrowed from the natural life.
~ Henry Drummond
I heard the trailing garments of the NightSweep through her marble halls.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And some women, Breavman thought, women like Shell, create [beauty] as they go along, changing not so much their faces as the air around them. They break down old rules of light and cannot be interpreted nor compared. They make every room original.
~ Leonard Cohen
And it's nighttime," said Jenny. She sighed. "I'm going home.
~ Leonard Richardson
All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The room pulsed with feeling
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The juke box was playing a Mexican polka
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Near Indeed Closer Between Just One Atmosphere H.O.P.E Hold On Pains Ends
~ Leticia Bufoni
It was summer again, and the summer nights smelled like murdered grass and sounded like crickets fucking.
~ Lev Grossman
For all that it was a party at Maude Chatwin's house, it was also just a party like any other party. There were pretty people and unpretty people, drunk people and undrunk people, people who didn't care what anybody thought about them and people standing in corners afraid to open their mouths lest somebody look directly at them.
~ Lev Grossman
The bus was thick with resignation, like a prison bus. Some kids slept. Others—the boys mostly—seemed to actually be stimulated by the atmosphere of despair; they ran feral, like being on a school bus meant they were in international waters.
~ Lev Grossman
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
~ Laurel Clark
It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.
~ Du Yun