Climate Influence Quotes

Give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:—not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all;

Suppose a black family transplanted to Sweden, may we not presume . . . that in a sufficient number of succeeding generations, the color would disappear from mere effect of the climate?

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

The Batave is much more Dutch than the Englander is English, the Frenchman is French or any other people of the world is anything. It is not exactly their patriotism which gives the Bataves the quality of eternal fixity of character, but rather their land, their climate, their whole manner of being and living, all of which resemble nothing else that can be seen on the face if the earth.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.