Quotes About Uninhabited

My dear Miss Parker, aside from the old priest, and now you, no one has lived in that building for three years!

They were open but empty-looking, like the windows of a house no one lived in. At

By way of contrast, on uninhabited Wrangell Island, an isolated scrap of land in the Chukchi Sea north of Siberia, mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down and all you'll see is forests, lakes and snow-capped mountains, with no sign whatsoever of human beings.

The silence had that slack quality that speaks only of the indifference of uninhabited rooms, and his footsteps sounded alien and overloud as he made his way down the hall.

The silence had that slack quality that speaks only of the indifference of uninhabited rooms,

The apartment was now a ghost:

Again the desert, unpeopled, limitless, empty to the horizon.

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

About 6,000 years ago, St. Paul Island, a tiny spot of land in the middle of the Bering Sea, must have been a strange place. Hundreds of miles away from the mainland, it was uninhabited except for a few species of small mammals, like arctic foxes, and one big one: woolly mammoths.

The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave. -Lt. Edward Beale, Congress report on Arizona, 1858

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Those warehouses across the way look deserted anyway.

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

the islands remained uninhabited and unpeopled, visited only by sailors under duress.

the forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

platform would look, well, abandoned. Not a

Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.