I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God…… — Anonymous 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
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“She also told me it wore down her spirit to live in the desert landscape that was parched by midsummer, to plant… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return… Those who don't return become a part of the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
“Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely,… — Dean King 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
Nevada contains an extraordinary diversity of outdoor landscapes and recreation experiences. Red Rock Canyon, Black Rock Desert, Lake Tahoe and the Great… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
