If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper,… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — Robert Farrar Capon 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
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite,… — Rob Machado Copy Share Image
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved. — Tanya Huff Copy Share Image
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals. — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
“Water in the Desert”: “No desolation is so total that it cannot contain somewhere, concealed and singing, a drop of life.” — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all,… — William Seabrook Copy Share Image