Jean Ingelow Quotes

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

Pray for rain!

Drought never brought dearth.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

Without rain, there is no life.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

I love the rain. It's my favorite weather.

Droughts come and go, but this one is so extreme that it will doubtless affect the discussion of climate change.

In our wildest dreams we never thought water would be a zero-sum game.

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

It rarely rains in Hollywood - and I love the rain. There are ups and downs to anywhere in the world, but I get frustrated without any rain.

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

The rain, it raineth every day.

Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier