“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.” — Gary R. Renard Copy Share Image
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I would rather live out on the desert alone, like an old prospector. All I needed was a small water source. What… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers… — C. Lynn Murphy Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“A desert is a lot like an ocean, if you replace all of the water with air. It stretches out and out… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
When you watch CNN, you see the custom graphics - 'War in the Desert,' or 'Showdown: Iraq,' and it's being presented like… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a… — Reham Khan Copy Share Image
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Al-Farabi Copy Share Image
Time is nothing but just a well without water in the desert when you are thirsty and hope that it must be… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
