The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. – James Lovelock
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
Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests. – Frances Beinecke
Since I was 19, I’ve always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I’ll be lucky and there’ll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while. – Feist
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
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
I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. – Lydia Millet
I don’t want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making. – Kygo
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
