I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own. . . I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.
Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
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.
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.
The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.
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.
Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. . . . I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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.
It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it’s all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar — techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.
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.
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?
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.
