Quote by David Quammen

“He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.”

— Anonymous Bedouin

“But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know…

— Father Dioscuros

“I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and…

— Luci Shaw

“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade…

— Matthew Arnold

“That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much…

— Virginia Woolf

“With every day that passed, the boy's heart became more and more silent. It no longer wanted to know about things of the past…

— Paulo Coelho

“some whine…some weep… other lit fire and sit on the edge of thoughts. some knows when to speak nothing. some knows the art of…

— Zara Sagar

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“When everything in your life is silent, enjoy the quietness of your mind. This is the place of peace, a sacred place, and a…

— James A. Murphy

“The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such…

— James Carlos Blake

“In the desert, words are a waste of water. In the ocean, speech will drown one.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr