Weather Resilience Quotes

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, but I'm not a fair weather cyclist. I'm happy to get a red nose in the cold.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.

I didn't invent the rainy day. I just own the best umbrella.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.

The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

The weather for me is nothing special. The weather couldn't kill me.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.