Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
On the outskirts of the desert in Yemen, there was a cafe with a jukebox that had 'Sunshine Superman' on it. I… — Donovan Copy Share Image
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It… — Cindy Ross Copy Share Image
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic,… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but… — Kabir Copy Share Image
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's… — Ruben Martinez Copy Share Image
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
