6 QUOTES WITH «TROPICS»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
tropics.
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.
I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPICS»
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tropics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tropics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gardening in the
Tropics
Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism.
2
Agricultural Insect Pests of the
Tropics and Their Control
Principles of pest control; Methods of pest control; Pest demage to crop plants; Biological control of crop pests; Chemical control of insect pests; Major tropical crop pests; Tropical crops and their; Pest spectra; General bibliography.
3
Good government in the
tropics
Theoretical novelty and elegant use of evidence combine to make this book a clear winner." -- Peter Evans, University of California at Berkeley
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Gardening in the
Tropics: The Definitive Guide for Gardeners
Gardening in the Tropics offers invaluable advice on how to establish a luxuriant tropical garden. This authoritative guide lists more than 500 varieties of tropical plants.
Richard Eric Holttum, I. C. Enoch,
2010
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An Eye for the
Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing ...
''Nature as she is in the Tropics''? Debates Surrounding the Truthfulness of
Paintings of the Tropics In 1871, when Heade exhibited his paintings of
Jamaicain Boston, they sparked a debate about the reality of paintings of nature
in the tropics, ...
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Geomorphology of the
Tropics
The book was first published in German in 1987. However, the present version is much more than a translation, encompassing a range of new ideas and findings in the field of tropical geomorphology.
Alfred Wirthmann, D. Busche,
2000
7
Improving Goat Production in the
Tropics: A Manual for ...
Written for both livestock specialists and for development workers who have not been formally trained in animal production, this book explains the theory of goat-keeping using practical, step-by-step guidelines.
8
Dragon in the
Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy ...
"A study of the Venezuelan revolution headed by Hugo Chávez, first elected president in 1999, with emphasis on how Chávez took a frail but still pluralistic democracy and turned it into a semi-authoritarian regime, achieving political ...
9
The
Tropics And the Traveling Gaze: India, landscape, and ...
Jacquemont's disappointed discovery in India of the “poor tropics” was a
significant one, for it echoed the experience of the British themselves and
anticipated the negative representation of the tropics by the French geographer
Pierre Gourou ...
10
A Naturalist's Guide to the
Tropics
Beautifully illustrated throughout with color plates, photographs, and drawings, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to the natural history of the tropics worldwide. 59 color photos. 21 maps.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPICS»
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tropics is used in the context of the following news items.
Newmarket: Muhaarar beats Tropics to win July Cup
The 2014 runner-up Tropics (25-1) was second again, having led in the six-furlong race before being caught on the line, with Eastern Impact (50-1) third. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
Ivory confident Tropics will produce best in July Cup
DEAN IVORY believes Tropics can put a disappointing Royal Ascot run behind him and bounce back to form at his favourite course in the Darley July Cup at ... «Racing Post, Jun 15»
Dinosaurs avoided tropics due to hot, dry climate: study
WASHINGTON – An unpredictable, yet scorching and dry climate kept large, grass-eating dinosaurs out of the tropics for some 30 million years after they first ... «The Japan Times, Jun 15»
Paradise Avoided: Why Largest Dinosaurs Skipped the Tropics
Giant dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics for tens of millions of years because wild climate swings there were too much for them to handle, researchers say. «Live Science, Jun 15»
Sunday evening Tropics check (06/07/2015)
MIDWAY, Fla. (WTXL) -- No tropical cyclone development is expected in the Atlantic Basin through the next five days. Tropical storm development tends to focus ... «WTXL ABC 27, Jun 15»
Of Fruit Hats And 'Happy Tropics,' A Renaissance For Carmen Miranda
Known for her outrageous costumes and beautiful voice, Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda was the highest-earning woman in Hollywood in the 1940s. «NPR, Apr 15»
Major New Research Project to Study How Tropical Forests …
The project is called the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics, or NGEE-Tropics. Its goal is the development of a model that represents how tropical ... «Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Apr 15»
The tropics are getting wetter: the reason could be clumpy storms
For a long time climate models have predicted that wet and warm areas in the tropics are going to get wetter, especially over the oceans. Observations of the ... «The Conversation AU, Mar 15»
Horse racing news: Ascot aim for Tropics
Dean Ivory has stressed that he wants to get at least one run into Tropics before sending him to Royal Ascot. After cutting short the seven-year old's stint in Dubai ... «SkySports, Mar 15»
Flint OHL team should avoid temptation, ignore 'Tropics'
OHL Flint Tropics concept jerseys. Very well done. Imagine Will Farrell in one of these @OHL4Flint. #MakeItHappen pic.twitter.com/Mdfyg595cm. «Ottawa Sun, Feb 15»