Civilization Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“Then he said: I am God,* the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will…

— United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB

“Anything less than the desert was a dream.”

— Kameron Hurley

“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.”

— Paul Auster

“There is something about the desert that pisses everything off.”

— Johnny Shaw

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going…

— Neil Gaiman

“Go into the desert not to escape other men but in order to find them in God.”

— Thomas Merton

“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so…

— M.B. Julien

“His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model…

— Lyndsay Faye

“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find…

— Yeonmi Park

“I leaned back in my chair, my fingers laced behind my head, and wondered at the complexities and contradictions that must have existed in…

— James Lee Burke