For millions of Americans, climate change is no longer just a chart or a graph. It's the smoke on our tongues from massive wildfires. It's the floodwater invading our homes and record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves.
Interpretation
Climate change is a tangible reality affecting people's lives and experiences.
Jay Inslee's quote emphasizes that climate change is not just an abstract concept represented by data, but a real and visceral experience impacting daily life. The vivid imagery of smoke from wildfires and floodwaters highlights the immediate and personal consequences of environmental changes, urging a recognition of climate change as a significant and urgent issue facing society.
In practice
In a speech about environmental policy, I might say, 'As Jay Inslee noted, climate change is like the smoke on our tongues from wildfires.'
Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
The river Rhine, it is well known, _x000D_ _x000D_ Doth wash your city of Cologne; _x000D_ _x000D_ But tell me, nymphs! what power divine _x000D_ _x000D_ Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
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