Deserts Quotes

140 Deserts quotes by 120 unique authors

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Unknown Author
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
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. — Unknown Author
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort… — Elizabeth Aston
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore… — James Kavanaugh
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,… — Edward Abbey
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect… — Nelson Mandela

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