Desert Quote by Edward Abbey

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as…

— Edward Abbey

“What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“For the desert is not where one thinks where it is. The Sahara is more alive than a metropolis, and the most teeming city…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“a desert more vast than the continental United States”

— Thomas Sowell

“It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.”

— Harry Hershfield

“Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now…

— Bruce Barcott

“Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.”

— Gary Chapman

“If you get the taste of the mountains once, you will always find the cities horribly tasteless!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”

— Thomas D. Isern

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“Pursue tranquillity in the mountains. The mountains, with their serene landscapes and peaceful ambience, are a constant reminder of the restorative power of silence…

— Gift Gugu Mona