Weather

"Stickeen always insisted on going with me, however wild the weather, gliding like a fox through dripping huckleberry bushes and thorny tangles of panaz and rubus...Once he followed me over a glacier the surface of which was so crusty and rough that it cut his feet until every step was marked with blood..."

"Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory."

"The weather is so very mild That some would call it warm. Good gracious, aren’t we lucky child?..."

"Isn't the [lightning darling? Fear not the thunder, little one. It's weather, simply weather; It's friendly giants full of fun Clapping their hands together. I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted ; You know it's lanterns in the sky angels who are losted. We [[love] the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt."

"By the waters of Life we sat together, Hand in hand in the golden days Of the beautiful early summer weather, When skies were purple and breath was praise."

"Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal."

"A Song for September Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather: Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!"

"Prayer: Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee to retain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen."

"How to start on my adventure—how to become a forester—was not so simple. There were no schools of Forestry]] in America. … Whoever turned his mind toward Forestry in those days thought little about the forest itself and more about its influences, and about its influence on rainfall first of all. So I took a course in meteorology, which has to do with weather and climate. and another in botany, which has to do with the vegetable kingdom—trees are unquestionably vegetable. And another in geology, for forests grow out of the earth. Also I took a course in astronomy, for it is the sun which makes trees grow. All of which is as it should be, because science underlies the forester's knowledge of the woods. So far I was headed right. But as for Forestry itself, there wasn't even a suspicion of it at Yale. The time for teaching Forestry as a profession was years away."

"Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?"

"Sometimes for years and years together, She ’ll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can’t imagine why or whence;"

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

"If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together."

"Weather: President Reagan must be happy over how bad the weather's been this winter, because its the one thing no one's blaming on him. There is nothing television news likes better than bad weather, and we sure get a lot of it in the United States."

"For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters clown, To strengthen while one stands."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"But by the fair weather that you make yourself - Many can brook the weather that cannot bear the wind - Considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold –‘Tis like to ne loud weather – But I must make fair weather yet awhile – Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate."

"The martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty."

"The weather and the giant of the weather, Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air: An abstraction blooded, as a thought."

"If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pasture or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf."

"In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted The tree trunks rifted."

"Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany-Tree."

"...of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."

"I believe that in India "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. People are always ready to complain about a problem but never willing to solve it;..."

"As a verb weather means change in color, condition, etc., because of the effects of the sun, wind, rain, etc., over a long period of time. It also means to deal with or experience (something dangerous or unpleasant) without being harmed or damaged too much."

"As a noun weather is the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place : the temperature and other outside conditions (such as rain, cloudiness, etc.) at a particular time and place, and bad or stormy weather. It is the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness."

"I feel so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom?"

"Pray don't talk to me about the weather,... Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."

"Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society."