Deserts Quotes

140 Deserts quotes by 120 unique authors

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. — Margaret Bourke-White
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their… — Aldous Huxley
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of… — Eric Burdon
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months… — Colin Fletcher
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts… — Gregory Bateson
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;… — Marsilio Ficino
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country. — Andre Maurois
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

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