Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of --… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Loving Allah resembles a brook in a desert with no millstone, and that is why there are few water-drawers. The lover usually… — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other… — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Cress?" "It's beautiful out there." A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" "The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it. — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
![“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I…” quote by Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/terry-tempest-williams-835_bodies-of-water_when-pico-iyer-talks-about-home-being-a_1766926.jpg)
