Desert Quote by Ella Maillart

“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” quote by Ella Maillart — Download Open image

“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”

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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

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“I write with my foot.”

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming…

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I did not support Operation Desert Fox.

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“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the…

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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve…

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There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

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Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How…

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God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work…

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“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a windless evening, and in the chill of new Icicles rigidly, imperceptibly lengthening. Cavern Stalagmites are almost majestic with solemnity. The black morel and the tree ear mushroom Are solemn without grief, solemn without joy, Solemn without…

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The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to…

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