Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost. — Tanith Lee
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch
I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change… — Terry Tempest Williams
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy… — Joseph Fort Newton
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the… — Swami Vivekananda
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix… — James Lovelock
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the… — Louis Sachar
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would… — Michael O'Leary
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his… — Rajneesh
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one… — Mark Twain
"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept… — Ray Bradbury
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do… — Doug Davidson
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go… — Anna Friel
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

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