Desert Quotes - Page 8

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.