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Quotes About Climates

Few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go into the making of our climates and weather, would be prepared to admit that the activities of man could have any influence upon phenomena of so vast a scale. In the following paper I hope to show that such influence is not only possible, but is actually occurring at the present time.
~ Bill McKibben
Most of the Indians, particularly those living on the coasts and in the hotter climates, were given to unnatural lusts. To such a dreadful degree was this practised, that men even went about in female garments, and made a livelihood by their diabolical and cursed lewdness.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.
~ Shay Mitchell
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
~ Herman Melville
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
~ Rachel Bilson
The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.
~ Terry Pratchett
in the unique case of a country's geographic position, it is difficult to consider this factor as anything other than a cause, unless we assume that in prehistoric times peoples migrated to climates that fit their concepts of power distance, which is rather far-fetched.
~ Geert Hofstede
Enfin, tous les naturalistes pourraient citer des cas innombrables d'espèces restant absolument les mêmes, c'est-à-dire qui ne varient en aucune façon, bien qu'elles vivent sous les climats les plus divers. Ces considérations me poussent à attribuer très peu de poids à l'action directe des conditions de vie.
~ Charles Darwin
And so he suspected the mayor of easing the budget crunch for sheltering the poor by giving them one-way bus tickets to warmer climates. And that was cold.
~ Carol O'Connell
I believe that human beings shouldn't live in climates that they cannot survive naked... and New York, although full of energy and heart, does not fall within that rubric.
~ Sean Baker
This slender store of medical supplies and equipment would have to serve the needs of 260 men of the fleet in all climates and conditions for several years.
~ Laurence Bergreen
As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
~ Lamar Alexander
La liberté n'étant pas un fruit de tous les climats n'est pas à la portée de tous les peuples.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
~ Helena Blavatsky
Most people think of the humidifier as something for arid climates, which I guess most of L.A. is, but it's just generally good for hydrating the skin, no matter what.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
Manners differ with climates; the northern nations are distinguished for etiquette, the eastern for ceremony, and the southern for courtesy.
~ Lord Acton
wide. Containers should have drainage holes. Use a soil-less potting mix and feed and water frequently. In cold climates, container-grown plants
~ Maggie Oster
Bare-root, dormant roses are planted in early spring, when the soil is workable and severely freezing weather is over. In milder climates, bare-root
~ Maggie Oster