Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert.… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,… — Edward Abbey
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To… — Frank Herbert
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by… — Henri Nouwen
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. — Aristotle
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven:… — Robert Southey
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect… — Nelson Mandela
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. — Margaret Bourke-White
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope... — Unknown Author
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. — Henri Nouwen
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose… — Cory Doctorow
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea… — Tim Winton
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance".… — Gabrielle Roth
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he… — John Steinbeck
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is… — L. Ron Hubbard

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