Desert Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land;…

— Janet Frame

Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even…

— Amy Carmichael

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual…

— George Schaller

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen…

— Anonymous

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my…

— Allen Ginsberg

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of…

— Christopher Paolini

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a snow storm,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald