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
If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking… — Mark Shand 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
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
The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. — John Steinbeck 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It was as if there were no names here, as if there were no words. The desert cleansed everything in its wind,… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic,… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. — Washington Allston 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
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
“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
“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
“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
