Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars?… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile… — Paul Brooks Copy Share Image
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
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