Deserts Quotes

140 quotes by 123 authors

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — John Milton
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his… — Thomas Carlyle
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. — Andrew Marvell
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will… — Peder Soerensen
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will give every man… — Chief Joseph
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt… — John Burroughs
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is… — Khalil Gibran
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases… — Lester R. Brown
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. — George Graham Vest
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic -… — Michael Palin
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his… — Guus Kuijer
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
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red… — Sarah Hall
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire… — Jean Baudrillard
The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece… — Jean Dubuffet

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