“There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).
“Venus was a machine for making bad weather.”
— Alastair Reynolds, book On the Steel Breeze
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 12 (p. 135)
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Did she make her dwelling.”
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