Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and… — Leslie Marmon Silko
A desert is a place without expectation. — Nadine Gordimer
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore,… — George W. Bush
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers? — Don King
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment… — James A. Baldwin
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. — Edward Abbey
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. — Edward Abbey
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. — Edward Abbey
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out… — Edward Abbey
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in… — Georgia O'Keeffe
When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say… — Georgia O'Keeffe
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society,… — Ralph Ellison
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is… — Ahad Ha'am
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness… — Charles Hodge
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My… — Harry Reid

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