Alan Thein Durning Quotes, Latin Quotes, Rain Quotes

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

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Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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The sound of the rain needs no translation.

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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

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I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

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Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!

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The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

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