Desert Quotes

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry ...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...

For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-chang...

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of disca...

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...

[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves...

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over whic...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The...

They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava d...

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depra...

The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, t...

Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true worl...

One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only ...

This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of ...

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my hone...

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and ...

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a ...

The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over...

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert powe...

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

New York is the great stone desert.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi...

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered ...

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully ...

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage o...

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon th...

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a t...

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the ...

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fi...

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and...

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.