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 Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. — Robert Benchley 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
“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
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
One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite,… — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved. — Tanya Huff Copy Share Image
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that...… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“The cactus of the high desert is a small grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only… — Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire Copy Share Image
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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
“Water in the Desert”: “No desolation is so total that it cannot contain somewhere, concealed and singing, a drop of life.” — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals. — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
