Tropics Quotes

“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for good, without finding out much; and that therefore the idea is to take things easy and enjoy the passing time under the sun. The white people charging hopefully around the islands these days in the noon glare, making deals, bulldozing airstrips, hammering up hotels, laying out marinas, opening new banks, night clubs, and gift shops, are to him merely a passing plague. They have come before and gone before.”
― Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival

“Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship of nature, he wrote, is "a modern, artificial, and somewhat precarious invention of refined minds." Byron and Wordsworth could only rhapsodize about their love of nature because the English countryside had already been "enslaved to man." In the tropics, he observed, where forests dripped with venom and vines, Romantic poets were notably absent. Tropical peoples knew something Englishmen didn't. "Nature," Huxley wrote, "is always alien and inhuman, and occasionally diabolic." And he meant always: Even in the gentle woods of Westermain, the Romantics were naive in assuming that the environment was humane, that it would not callously snuff out their lives with a bolt of lightning or a sudden cold snap. After three days amid the Tuckamore, I was inclined to agree.”
― Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration

“You who sacrifice fortunes to see the luxuriance of the tropics or the polar lights of the arctic, must pay more dearly to see the One for whom the luxuriance of the tropics is poverty and the polar lights are a tallow candle.”
― Nikolaj Velimirović, Prayers by the Lake

“Astronomical facilities are generally located in or near to the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“Smoky hills that loomed like ogres.”
― Kevin Ansbro, Kinnara

“Those with common sense will live in the rural tropics during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Global pollution is in the process of making places outside of the tropics hazardous to human health.”
― Steven Magee

“Pollution is reducing the amount of natural ultraviolet (UV) sterilizing light outside of the tropics and increased rates of diseases are the expected outcome.”
― Steven Magee

“Keep Hawaii Hawaiian.”
― Steven Magee

“Can you taste the flavor of papaya and coconut? Can you hear the wind whistling through the palm trees on the beach? Can you see the arc of the horizon, where the Pacific Ocean meets the sky?”
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness

“Equatorial Adaptation Disease (EAD): People that have biologically adapted to the tropics and become sick outside of the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“The vegetation grew so dense the road looked like a square slice of cake taken out clean with a knife. Although the wet tropics covers less than one percent of Australia, it contains almost half of our bird species, a third of our mammal species, more than half of our butterfly species, and over seven hundred plant species endemic to the area. The rain forest seemed to inhale and exhale in a sweaty tangle of heaving bio matter.”
― Monica Tan, Stranger Country

“As a climate change scientist, there is a reason why I live on an island in the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“The Sun is the largest nuclear reactor in our solar system! The closer you get to it, the greater your radiation exposure is! How do you get closer to the Sun? You move to the tropics and you go as high as you can! The higher you go, the more intense the radiation is.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Climate changed hurricanes are the new mass murderers.”
― Steven Magee

“It is only a matter of time before we have category 6 hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

“Are category 6 supermassive hurricanes the future?”
― Steven Magee

“Is a category 6 supermassive hurricane in your future?”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane is the black hole of weather.”
― Steven Magee

“Humans versus category 6 supermassive hurricanes!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be coming to you in the future!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will run on fossil fuel.”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes may be the end of Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will feed on warm water.”
― Steven Magee

“The cooling winds are disappearing in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“Hawaii is an amazing place with the right partner!”
― Steven Magee

“It’s Hawaii time!!!”
― Steven Magee

“Live Hawaiian style!”
― Steven Magee

“I find the Hawaii afternoon heat to be fatiguing.”
― Steven Magee

“I expect Hawaii summer vacations will end soon, as tourists will not like the excessive heat that climate change is creating in the Hawaiian islands.”
― Steven Magee