Humidity Quotes

“The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world.”
― Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease

“U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one sićušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela čovečjeg i čine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“The air was already drunk with humidity when I stepped outside on that first morning.”
― Alexandra Horowitz, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

“New York is sweltering in the summertime.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose.”
― Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro

“The electric hum of cicadas, which was a low drone near the road, become an overwhelming vibration in the neck-deep brush that had taken back what was once a long driveway and front yard. By the time I reached the structure, beads of sweat were rolling off my lips and the tip of my nose, and my skin was covered in the slick of Louisiana humidity.”
― Mike Correll, Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana

“Humidity could be at 100% or near to zero, depending on the weather atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.”
― Steven Magee

“You should aim to keep your bedroom in the range of 30% to 50% relative humidity for improved sleep.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Astronomical observatories are at high altitude due to the radiation levels from Space being elevated because they are in a partial vacuum, the humidity is low and they are often above the clouds.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The hot, soggy breath of the approaching summer was extremely depressing”
― Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

“The following weekend delivered that unhappy combination of cloud cover and oppressive humidity.”
― Alana B. Lytle, Man's Best Friend