When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” — Thomas Gray 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
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
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven… — Boonaa Mohammed 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
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a… — Peter Benchley 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
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a… — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment — Leo Robin Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding 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
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While… — Sting Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.” — Tony Taylor Copy Share Image
