Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.… — Sheila Cassidy 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
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
