Beauty Quote by Bayard Taylor

“Damascus, is simply an oasis, that is what it is. For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed.…

— Mark Twain

“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of princes and…

— Mark Twain

“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;         the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;     2 it shall blossom abundantly         and…

— Crossway

It was important for me to show that Beirut and Lebanon were once the pearl of the Middle East. Beirut was once called the…

— Eran Riklis

“A new voice haild me of an old friend when, first returned from the Peninsula, I paced again in that long street of Damascus…

— Charles Montagu Doughty

“One thing about Islam is that paradise always beckons. Life is oriented toward the afterlife. Whatever pleasures you miss out on in this world,…

— Amanda Lindhout

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers.…

— Zaha Hadid

“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!”

— Wilkie Collins

When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who…

— Rumi

When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar