Desert Quotes - Page 4

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

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

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.