Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire 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
Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung! — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside.… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We did it! Britain is no longer a member of the European Union. By 'we' I mean the 17.4 million Britons who… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun,… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training… — Bhai Sahib Singh Copy Share Image
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The desert has more animals than one would guess. And I seem to be running into more and more each day.” — E.Y. Laster Copy Share Image
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Peter O'Toole - I really loved that man. They sent me into the desert, and I lived there with him for 100… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“No one in this desert, neither he nor his guest, mattered. And yet, outside this desert neither of them, Daru knew, could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Any man can stay sober in a desert, he mused, but only the loyal can sit in an oasis and refuse to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
