Enamoured of the tropics, despite the damage done me, I stopped in various places, and was a long while getting back to the splendid, temperate climate of California.
And for fear that the idea may still lurk in some minds that my preceding years of drinking were the cause of my disabilities, I here point out that my Japanese cabin boy, Nakata, still with me, was rotten with fever, as was Charmian, who in addition was in the slough of a tropical neurasthenia that required several years of temperate climates to cure, and that neither she nor Nakata drank or ever had drunk.
Wherever there is water, however, and vegetable mould, the ardent nature of the climate quickens everything into astonishing fertility.
The splendor of the climate gives an Italian effect to the immense prospect.
By a Law of Nature with us, there is a constant attraction to the South; and, although in temperate
climates this is very slight -- so that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty -- yet the hampering effect of the southward attraction is quite sufficient to serve as a compass in most parts of our earth.
It respects space and time, climate, want, sleep, the law of polarity, growth and death.
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
"I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of the
climate," said he.
A genial
climate seemed to prevail here, for though the snow lay upon all the mountains within sight, there was none to be seen in the valley.
Would the change to the
climate of Netherwoods produce any effect on Mrs.
Habit also has a deciding influence, as in the period of flowering with plants when transported from one
climate to another.
Confining our view to South America, we should certainly be tempted to believe that trees flourished only under a very humid
climate; for the limit of the forest-land follows, in a most remarkable manner, that of the damp winds.
