Desert Quotes

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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain… — Orlando Bloom
Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life… — Buzz Aldrin
My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are… — Nicolas Cage
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven… — Noam Chomsky
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will… — Laozi
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out… — Henry Russell Sanders
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to… — Edmond Jabes
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached… — Lyndon B. Johnson
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side,… — Alan Valentine
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the… — Huston Smith
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep,… — Thomas Hood
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — John Milton
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. — Jean Baudrillard
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and… — James Elroy Flecker
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his… — Thomas Carlyle

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