Desert Quotes

“No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom ...

“No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom can beat an exponential population growth.” ― Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
📅︎ Mar 08
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“The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes --...

“The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes -- or it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face lighting a little hour or two -- is gone.” - Omar Khayyam
📅︎ Jan 29
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knee...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. MARY OLIVER
📅︎ Dec 24
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"If you put the federal government in ch...

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." -- Milton Friedman
📅︎ Oct 23
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"Just because you wander in the des...

"Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land." Paul Auster - Collected Prose
📅︎ Aug 05
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They made a de...

They made a desert and called it peace. —Tacitus
📅︎ Aug 12
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"New York has more hermits than will be ...

"New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States." - Simeon Strunsky
📅︎ May 12
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“What makes the desert beautiful is ...

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
📅︎ Apr 03
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“What makes the desert beautif...

“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
📅︎ Mar 28
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"If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacr...

"If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found." - Terry T. Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
📅︎ Nov 19
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"Rebellion without truth ...

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert." - Khalil Gibran
📅︎ Mar 09
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"I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone"....

"I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm." - Gabrielle Roth
📅︎ Jan 30
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“The greatest battles being fought ar...

“The greatest battles being fought are not upon deserts, forests, or any soil of the earth, but within the human mind.”
📅︎ Dec 14
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“If you concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see there’s li...

“If you concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see there’s life in the desert. That there’s stars in the heavens. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.“ ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
📅︎ Jul 11
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“The man in black fled acr...

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” ― Stephen King
📅︎ Aug 24
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In the Scorching heat of life, the cool breeze o...

In the Scorching heat of life, the cool breeze of your memories rushes in and leaves me drier than a desert ....aching for a drop of you. - Kokane Khan
📅︎ May 22
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In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his...

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. STEPHEN CRANE
📅︎ Jul 05
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Nobody loves a rain ...

Nobody loves a rain cloud, until they find themselves in a desert.
📅︎ May 02
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"Well, here's another mess you've gotte...

"Well, here's another mess you've gotten me into!" - Ollie (Oliver Hardy) to Stan (Stan Laurel) - Sons of the Desert (1933)
📅︎ Apr 08
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"An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people - we are learning fi...

"An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people - we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches - therefore let us behave accordingly." Edward Abbey
📅︎ Aug 06
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Imaginations in our ...

Imaginations in our life are like a garden in desert." -Lareb Soomro
📅︎ Dec 05
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Sunshine all th...

Sunshine all the time makes a desert. - Arab Proverb
📅︎ Sep 09
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"The desert seems vast, even endless, an...

"The desert seems vast, even endless, and yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow." Welcome To Night Vale
📅︎ Oct 01
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“In the desert of the heart, tears do not tou...

“In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground. (Dans le désert du coeur, - Les larmes ne touchent la terre.)” ― Charles de Leusse
📅︎ Oct 06
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"If you put the federal government in cha...

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
📅︎ Sep 13
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Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies ...

Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. - François Mauriac, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Oct 1885-1970)
📅︎ Oct 11
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"A drop of love is able...

"A drop of love is able to form oceans in a desert heart" (William Ventura)
📅︎ Mar 09
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“The task of the modern educato...

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” ― C.S. Lewis
📅︎ Oct 14
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"Terry took death's arm and followed him ...

"Terry took death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night." - Rhianna Pratchett
📅︎ Mar 13
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“If you put the federal government in ch...

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” --Milton Friedman
📅︎ Jan 13
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"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. An...

"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert." Demetri Martin
📅︎ Dec 14
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"I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was th...

"I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you." - Jeffrey Eugenides
📅︎ Mar 04
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“Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to esc...

“Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape…Sending humans to other planets … will shape the future of the human race in ways we don’t yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.” - Stephen Hawking
📅︎ Feb 26
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" Ideals are like stars: You will not succeed in touching them with you...

" Ideals are like stars: You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny" - Carl Schurz
📅︎ Jan 16
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“So it always is: when you escape to...

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.” ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American
📅︎ Feb 19
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"In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the ...

"In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools." -Alan Paton
📅︎ Sep 10
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“Caught bet...

“Caught between an iceberg and a desert”
📅︎ Sep 22
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