Desert Quotes - Page 9

• Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

  Toni Collette

  Brilliant, Hard

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• A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

  Denis Kearney

  Men, Two, Hiking

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• Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

  Lord Byron

  Dwelling Place, Spirit, Ministers

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 177

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• The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Light, Rocks, Sea

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “Force of circumstance”, G.P. Putnam's Sons

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• Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

  Edward Abbey

  Choices, Done, World

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Spring, Uprising

  "The Vision". Book by Kahlil Gibran, October 1, 1994.

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Our World, Symphony, Silence

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Liberty, May

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.25, Fordham Univ Press

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  The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

  Jules Verne

  Lonely, Ocean, Men

  Jules Verne (2015). “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories”, p.49, 谷月社

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• The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Knowing, Water, Sin

  Richard Paul Evans (2009). “The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Book, Rocks, Hands

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• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  Bear Grylls

  Mountain, Dangerous, Extremes

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• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

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• The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Sea, Silence

  1948 Perseus in the Wind.

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• If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

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• And who knew?
  That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert,
  Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven
  You may have every title, every big shot degree,
  But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

  Liya Kebede

  Nice, Heat

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• You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Speak

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• This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

  Freya Stark

  Doe, Accessories, Charm

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.99, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Powerful, Buddhism

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• 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.

  Gary Chapman

  Sea, Mountain, Hardship

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Talking, Ignorant, Sand

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• Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Goodbye, New York, Moving

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