David Grinspoon Quotes

The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So on Venus, you're seeing features, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old on the surface. On Earth, we do not see any surface features nearly that old - you only see much more recent features.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.

I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Thunder only happens when it's raining.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

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.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds.