“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover’s name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows… — michael ondaatje Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block 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
“You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For your sake, I hurry over land and water; For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was… — Diana Dors Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden...… — Paul E. Miller 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
