Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the… — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens 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
I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
“They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the… — Bruce Chatwin 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
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's… — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water.... In… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage… — George Stroumboulopoulos Copy Share Image
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
