Desert Quotes - Page 16

• When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

  Bill Gross

  Running, Real, Risk

  "Credit Supernova!" by Bill Gross, www.pimco.com. February 2013.

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• Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

  Jamais Cascio

  Urbanization, Wind, Civilization

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• There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Way, Easy

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

  Tahir Shah

  Rain, Forests, Horror

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

  Tahir Shah

  Skeletons, Years, Elephants

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• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  Mo Rocca

  Song, Rain, Laughing

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• The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, Giving, Soul

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• Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

  Russ Wilcox

  Eagles, Essence, Flying

  "Newspapers: The Future". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2005.

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• When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
  The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
  I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

  William Wordsworth

  Country, Fear, Men

  William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.255

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Breathing, Luck, Want

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, New York, Race

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.82, University of Missouri Press

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• Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

  Hal Borland

  Sight, People, Giving

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• The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

  John Dewey

  Children, Childhood, Community

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.71, SIU Press

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• ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

  Carolyn Wells

  Uplifting, Men, Color

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes ... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Struggle, Men

  Richard Misrach (1987). “Desert Cantos”

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• People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Lonely, Thinking

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• Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

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• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

  Edward T. Hall

  Women, Eye, Differences

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• Life is short...eat desert first!

  Wendy Mass

  Life Is Short, Firsts, Life Is

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Flower, Dark

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Men, Years

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