Donella Meadows

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.

American Environmentalist

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

American Journalist

Anika Noni Rose

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!

American Actress

Lewis Tappan

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.

American Businessman

Bruno Tonioli

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.

Italian Dancer

Lawrence Osborne

In 'Snow for Mother', a mother waits for her little boy to grow up so that she can take him to Alaska to experience the real snow, which he never knew as a little boy in the tropics.

British Novelist

Dan Aykroyd

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

Canadian Comedian

Padgett Powell

Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.

American Novelist

Lydia Millet

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

Manuel Puig

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Argentinian Author

The tropics are specific regions, not general hot places.

Geographical Boundaries

'Tropic' lines mark 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator.

23.5 Degrees

The position of the sun at solstices defines the tropic lines.

Seasonal Relevance

Tropic regions are known for rich and unique ecosystems.

Biodiversity Hotspots

Although 'tropic' suggests heat, some tropic areas can be cool.

Not Always Hot

Tropic regions are typically humid, affecting climate perception.

Humidity Matters

Tropic often evokes images of exoticness and relaxation.

Cultural Association

Tropic as an adjective often refers to weather patterns or locations.

Weather vs. Locale

 on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure. And he whipped out his cellphone, dialed the number, and a voice said, "I'm up here." And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

Why nations should...

 So you see new datum planes, new grounds planes for social activity. We paid a lot of attention to sustainability. In the tropics, the sun is the most important thing to pay attention to, and, in fact, it is seeking protection from the sun. We first proved that all apartments would have sufficient daylight

Why great architecture...

 it's teeming with life of farming and science and social spaces. So in a way, you can imagine this community port is where people gather, both by day and by night. And even if the first one is designed for the tropics, we also imagine that the architecture can adapt to any culture,

Floating cities, the...

 forming a big part of everyday diets for two billion people around the world. Countries in the tropics are the keenest consumers, because culturally, it's acceptable. Species in those regions are also large, diverse, and tend to congregate in groups or swarms

Should we eat bugs? -...

 protect embryos lining their bellies juveniles also are found in cooler water one researcher says the temperature of the water near the Antarctic vents is comparable to water found in the warm tropics other creatures near the vents

Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...

 So, wealth -- how can a bat possibly bring us wealth? Now as I said before, bats are essential for our ecosystems to function correctly. And why is this? Bats in the tropics are major pollinators of many plants.

Emma Teeling: The secret...

 And tropical forests tell their own story. Protecting currently degraded land in the tropics and allowing natural regeneration to occur is the number five solution to reversing global warming.

100 solutions to reverse...

 travel to the polar oceans where they feed and as winter arrives they take this lengthy migration to the tropics to breed and give birth this is what scientists thought all blue whales did

Protecting nature’s...

 without such a dramatic start in life it's unlikely any of them would have even got this far northern australia has the highest tides in the tropics which expose vast areas of shoreline

ONE HOUR of Amazing...

 When I was a young man, I spent six years of wild adventure in the tropics working as an investigative journalist in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.