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“Heat, like an article of invisible clothing, makes us want to take it off.”

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source: The Book of Disquiet (New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), 43.

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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

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source: Great Expectations (New York: Vintage, 2012), 403.

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medium: Fiction

via: Beverly Bader

“A spring heat wave like no other in U.S. and Canadian history peaked in intensity yesterday, during its tenth day. Since record keeping began in the late 1800s, there have never been so many temperature records broken for spring warmth in a one-week period—and the margins by which some of the records were broken yesterday were truly astonishing. Wunderground’s weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, commented to me yesterday, ‘It’s almost like science fiction at this point.'”

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source: Wunderground, March 22, 2012.

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medium: Blog

via: Bill McKibben
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