Canyons Quote by Craig Childs

“Water in the Desert”: “No desolation is so total that it cannot contain somewhere, concealed and singing, a drop of life.”

— Elizabeth Barrette

“For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs…

— Isaiah Bible ESV

“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in…

— Bryce Courtenay

“The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it…

— Frank Herbert

“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves elegant, intricate…

— Craig Childs

“In the dry places, men begin to dream, wrote Wright Morris, who grew up north of here, in Nebraska. Where rivers run sand, something…

— Julene Bair

“The living water that never runs dry, The water of life, Lord, the saviour of the world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring love. It…

— H Raven Rose

Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew.…

— Huston Smith

“beware, white man, of the friendly forest, of the painted desert, beware of the singing water lest you find your mother and she pounce…

— Jaime De Angulo

“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or…

— Jeannette Walls