Desert Quotes

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

New York is the great stone desert.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.