Deserts Quotes

140 quotes by 123 authors

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo
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
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
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
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Al-Farabi
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. — Simeon Strunsky
God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice,… — Caesarius of Arles
Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each… — Charles Kingsley
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and… — Lucretius
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin… — Plutarch
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no… — Robert C. Solomon
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful… — George Graham Vest
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about… — Noah Cicero
Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters,… — John Wimber
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea… — Jean Giono
Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is… — Robert Fulghum
I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet… — Andy Spade
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and… — Paul Shepard

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