Deserts Quotes

140 quotes by 120 authors

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... — Washington Irving
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human… — Frederick Lenz
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his… — John Singer Sargent
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source… — Eric Burdon
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. — Antonia Fraser
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. — Charles Caleb Colton
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and… — Charles Caleb Colton
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt… — Lynn Andrews
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is… — John Dryden
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with… — Cecil Day-Lewis
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
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels. — Derrick Jensen
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
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
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able… — Bear Grylls
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. — Bear Grylls
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and… — John Hoeven

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