Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo
Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains… — Robert Burns
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is… — John Dryden
Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in… — John Keble
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. — Oliver Goldsmith
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley
The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. — John Steinbeck
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty… — Georgia O'Keeffe
In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries,… — Oliver North
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with… — Cecil Day-Lewis
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner… — Werner Herzog
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… — Kazimir Malevich
No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers… — Matt Smith
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care… — Rudolf Steiner
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no… — Zeno of Elea
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up. — Campbell Scott
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you… — Carl Schurz
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to… — John Muir
Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If… — Theodore Roosevelt
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. — Bayard Taylor
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. — Golda Meir
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to… — Luther Burbank
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney

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