... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. — Li Bingbing 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
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
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
If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it -… — Anita Dobson Copy Share Image
The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I've cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it's like on a bike. — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
“The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all,… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings.… — Jennifer Rubin Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Cress?" "It's beautiful out there." A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" "The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
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
“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
I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You don't have to DO anything for someone to love you, the right person will cross a desert just for the chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45d/lucretius-1632_able_deprived-of-pain-and-also-deprived-of-da_83651.jpg)
![“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I…” quote by Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91c/terry-tempest-williams-835_bodies-of-water_when-pico-iyer-talks-about-home-being-a_1766926.jpg)
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