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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. -- Carrie Fisher
I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach. -- Michael B. Jordan
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. -- James Lovelock
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. -- Rickie Lee Jones
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. -- E. O. Wilson
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish. -- Mark Carwardine
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. -- Steven Tyler
The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit. -- David Fairchild
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. -- Gloria Swanson
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. -- Ezra Stiles
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. -- E. O. Wilson
You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. -- Peter May
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too. -- Carl Schurz
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in. -- John Buchan
Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting. -- Stephen King
The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that. -- Kerry Emanuel
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air. -- Tim Cahill
Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers. -- Anais Nin
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I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person. -- Matthew Fox
We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. -- Gloria Swanson
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. -- Diane Ackerman
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. -- Peter Agre
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. -- Bill Gates
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. -- E. O. Wilson
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics. -- Stephen Hawking
We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. -- Helen Fisher
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. -- Harold E. Varmus
For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it. -- Carmen Electra
I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun. -- Peter Singer
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done. -- Bill Gates
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. -- David Suzuki
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. -- Michael Dickinson
Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. -- Martin Rees
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? -- Adam McKay
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. -- Tony Hillerman
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Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person. -- Matthew Fox
The God's tropical...ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.' -- Ghostface Killah
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become â??better organized. -- Lydia Davis
You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala. -- George Carlin
Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. -- Kim Jong-un
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach." -- Carrie Fisher
When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. -- Michael Douglas
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. -- Tahir Shah
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. -- Dasha Zhukova
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. -- Edgar Allan Poe
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? -- Karen Marie Moning
I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country. -- Thomas R. Insel
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests -- Jane Goodall
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines. -- Chang-Rae Lee
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A fire scene is very fragile, especially in a tropical environment. You've got to get to the evidence before the heat, wind and rain do -- Robert J. Creighton
If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means something. -- Jack Handey
Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin. -- Richard Preston
I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work. -- Werner Herzog
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. -- Jared Diamond
Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees. -- Alan Huffman
My favorite look would be a fresh, dewy face with a bronze, sun-kissed glow. It looks so tropical and reminds me of a place that feels like true home. -- Mya
I'd have to say the Seychelles, because I adore being in tropical places. However, Paris and Milan are also special to me. Every city has something special that attracts me. -- Candice Swanepoel
I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert. -- Andy Kindler
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms. -- Vivian Jenkins
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. -- John Dyer
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two sides of me, the bachata/tropical Latin side and the English pop as well. They're both equally important, so I'll always make sure to keep both roots in my music. -- Prince Royce
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. -- Raymond Chandler
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. -- Harold E. Varmus
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. -- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming. -- Christopher Landsea

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