Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. — Nigella Lawson
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak… — W. Eugene Smith
My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements.… — David Brainerd
Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! — Kazimir Malevich
I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If… — Mary Travers
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough — Mary Hunter Austin
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas — Mary Hunter Austin
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit… — Taisen Deshimaru
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that… — Norman Borlaug
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,… — Tacitus
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town,… — Walt Whitman
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the… — Edwin Way Teale
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same… — Masanobu Fukuoka
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. — Herb Ritts
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't… — Herb Ritts
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Unknown Author
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody… — Eddie Izzard
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of… — Bret Easton Ellis
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… — T.E. Lawrence
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art.… — Tom Kundig
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and… — Matthew Simpson
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. — Patrick McGoohan
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can… — Gabriel Zaid

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