Books Quote by Annie Dillard

“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell…

— C. Lynn Murphy

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of…

— Michael Frayn

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

“My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of…

— Craig Silvey

“The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it…

— Frank Herbert

“It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.”

— Delano Johnson

“When the wind blows here, it is your wind; and when the water gurgles among the rocks, it speaks only to you. The mountain…

— Michael Puttonen

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms, and dream…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here,…

— Italo Calvino

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante