The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Nacho Madness. — Macho Man Randy Savage Copy Share Image
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched.… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert,… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and… — Mary Hunter Austin 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
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
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension… — Jean Baudrillard 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
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“We both keep walking in the desert, following a fragile dream of America.” — Terry Farish Copy Share Image
“I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.” — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image