Archibald MacLeish Quotes

That's a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can't help but be aware of the seasons, and there is something wonderful about that. Okay, so there's a distinct lack of beach, but aside from that, the place grows on you.

When you play in New England you have cold weather, hot weather, windy weather, or snow.

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

I always prefer the weather to be cooler.

Can you name a state in the United States that doesn't get some interesting weather every now and then? No!

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.