Heat Island Effect

Famous quotes containing the words heat, island and/or effect:

    “Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.”
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)

    “An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)