Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. — Maria Mitchell
There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing. — David
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in… — Will Rogers
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.… — John Muir
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so… — Matthew Arnold
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit… — Frederick Lenz
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies… — Stuart L. Hart
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun… — Margaret Fuller
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels. — Derrick Jensen
When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of… — Tad R. Callister
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living… — Terry Tempest Williams
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through… — Stephen King
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily… — Charles de Lint
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that… — Charles Caleb Colton
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert… — Emile M. Cioran
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart,… — John Dryden
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it… — Charles Duke
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the… — Marge Piercy

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