Desert Quotes - Page 3

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

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

They make a desert and call it peace.

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.